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one can form an opinion on modern Hyderabad and appreciate its present condition without studying the life of that remarkable man, Sir Salar Jung I.

Here it will only be possible to give an idea of the manner in which he planted and watered the present administration, and started and fostered the institutions that now form an integral part of His Highness the Nizam's Government.

Moulvi Cheragh Ali says:—"Before the administration of H. E. the Nawab Salar Jung I there was no regular or systematic form of government, nor were there any separate departments of administration. Everything was in the hands of the Diwan or Minister, without any regular form of administration. It was altogether a new idea, an element foreign to the conservative mind of Hyderabad to have anything like an organised system of government."