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 H. H. The Nawab of Banganapalli. 13

"Her Majesty being desirous that the Government of the several Princes and Chiefs, who now govern their own territories, should be perpetuated, and that the representation and dignity of their Houses should be continued ; in fulfilment of this desire, this Sunnud is given to you to convey to you the assurance that, on failure of natural heirs, the British Government will permit and confirm any succession to your State which may be legitimate according to Mahomedan Law.

Be assured that nothing shall disturb the engage- ment thus made to you, so long as your House is loyal to the Crown and faithful to the condition of the treaties, grants or engagements, which record its obligations to the British Government."

In 1861 Saiyid Ghulam Ali Khan Bahadur was made a Campanion of the Star of India. He died in 1868 without male issue, and succession to the Jaghir was contested by his widow, Imdad Hussainee Begum and his nephew and son-in-law Fateh Ali Khan Bahadur, the present Naw^ab, whom the deceased had, during his life, nominated his heir.

His Highness the Nawab Saiyid Fateh Ali Khan Bahadur, r.s.T.. the son of Saiyid Asad Ali Khan Bahadur, the elder brother of Saiyid Ghulam Ali Khan Bahadur, C.S.I., the forme]- Nawab of Banganapalli, was born ft Banganapalli in 1S48. Dissensions arising between the father and the uncle of the present Nawab, the family of Saiyid Asad Ali Khan Bahadur was compelled to leave the limits of the Jaghir, and betake itself to Hyderabad, by virtue of the Sunnud given by Mansurud-daulah, the ' founder of the State. The greater portion ol the youth of the Nawab was spent in Hyderabad, though he and