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Rh One would like to hear what such people as "Taj," the gifted authoress of "Zorah," and Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, the well-known Hindu poetess of Hyderabad, think on these subjects. At any rate, there is in the Hyderabad State no great army of prostitutes, such as one finds all over Europe.

There are many missionaries in the Hyderabad State, more, I think, than can be found in any similar area in British India. The greater number of them come from America, and are in consequence, pushing and energetic people. That missionaries are doing good work in raising the lowest classes in the social scale throughout His Highness's Dominions there can be no doubt, and more especially by their hospitals do they reach the hearts of the so-called "outcasts" and gain a lasting influence. There is in the Hyderabad State no Missionary Year Book, and Methodists, Baptists and Wesleyans seem to know little about anything further than their own particular mission. So I will briefly describe the largest mission in the State, namely, the Wesley an Methodist Evangelistic Mission at Medak. This mission began