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46 abad. Thither he went in 1873, and ever since his life has been devoted to the State, his adopted home. In 1876 he accompanied Sir Salar Jung to England, and on his return to Hyderabad, he was appointed Private Secretary to His Excellency the Minister and Secretary to Government in the Miscellaneous Department, which had, among other things, control over State education. From that time the education of both sexes absorbed much of his attention, and he set himself the task of adapting " all that is best in Western education to the needs of an Eastern people." To the teachers under his control, he gave the motto "kindness and discipline/' and so highly did H. H. the late Nizam think of him as an educationist that he was appointed one of the earliest tutors of the present ruler.

At this time he compiled with Mr. M. C. Wilmott an "Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the Nizam s Dominions;" and shortly after the death of Sir Salar Jung I, he wrote a biography of that great man. He was, afterwards, much sought after to fill public appointments outside Hyderabad State, as well as in it. In 1900 he presided over the Mahomedan Educational Conference, and