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Rh tary to Government and Private Secretary to H. E. the Minister, Nawab Faridoon Jung Bahadur, who is, no doubt, a great diplomatist.

And this is an appropriate place, I think, in which to briefly describe the two remarkable men who have played such important parts in the administration of the Hyderabad State during the past two years.

Nawab Imud-ul-Mulk Bahadur, C.S.I. The family of Nawab Imud-ul-Mulk Bahadur is said to have come to India about 1217 A.D., with Muhammad Ghori, the Afghan conqueror, and to have settled in Oudh. His father was deputy collector and deputy magistrate in various parts of Bengal and Behar. He was born at Gya, in 1844, and after being educated in various schools and colleges in Calcutta, where he graduated in the first class from the Hare Academy, he chose the educational service for his career, and he was appointed professor of Arabic in the Canning College at Lucknow.

When Sir Salar Jung visited Lucknow in 1872, that great statesman perceived the possibilities of the young professor of Arabic, and offered him an appointment in Hyder-