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 from Arabs.—Restoration of Government, credit—Famine, 1854—Re-organisation of revenue administration.—Improvement in State Income.

The subject of this memoir, His Excellency Nawab Mir Turab Ali Khan Bahadur, Sir Salar Jung, Shujahu-d-Daula, Mukhtaru-l-Mulk, G.C.S.I., D.C.L., was the son of Mir Mahomed Ali Khan Bahadur Shujahu-d-DauIa, the eldest son of Muniru Mulk by his marriage with the second daughter of Mir Alam (Saiad Abul Kassim) in 1804. Mir Mahomed Ali Khan Bahadur, Salar Jung, Shujahu-d-Daula, married the daughter of Saiad Kazim Ali Khan Bahadur, Mukhtaru-d-Daula, a nobleman descended from Saiad Ja'far Razavi of Naishapur in Persia, Mir Turab Ali (Salar Jung), who was the fruit of this alliance, was born on the 2nd January 1829. Before proceeding further, it will be desirable to give an account of the ancestors from whom Mir Alana, Sir Salar's great grandfather, Muniru-1-Mulk, and Suraju-1-Mulk were descended. The family derive their origin from the famous Sheikh Ovais Karani of Medina, from whom the present representative Nawab Mir Liak Ali Khan Bahadur, Sir Salar's eldest son, is the thirty-fourth in descent. Sheikh Ovais, the ancestor in the ninth generation, held the office of Superintendent of charitable endowments bequeathed for pious purposes at Medina. He left his native country for India, accompanied by his son Sheikh Muhammad Ali, and finally settled at Bijapur in the reign of Ali Adil Shah (A.D. 1656-1672). Sheikh Muhammad