Page:Modern Hyderabad (Deccan).djvu/163

Rh and most of the large buildings in the mission compound were built during famines.

Among Mahomedans the missionaries do not work, but among the lowest classes of Hindus they make in the Hyderabad State a yearly increasing number of converts.

And it is not generally known that the Indian Protestant bishop, who, two years ago, was consecrated with so much pomp in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, lives in His Highness's Dominions. Most people think that Bishop Azariah resides in British India, but as a matter of fact he is at Dornakal, in the Hyderabad State.

An impatient and zealous young American missionary made not long ago some foolish remarks on His Highness's government because he could not obtain, in hot haste, a piece of land on which to build a church. So it may be well to state that all religions are treated alike in the Hyderabad State, that churches, as well as mosques and temples, there receive donations, and that the delay in granting permission to erect a religious edifice has its root in the fact that His Highness's government makes no religious favourites.