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15. The Collector of Kiirnool is directed to communicate this order to Fateh Ali Khan, to Imdad Hussainee Begum, and Nazimood-daulah."

That a member of the illustrious family of the Banganapalli Nawabs should by right of descent assume the rulership of the State was in itself a very popular event. It was an augury of prosperity to the subjects of Banganapalli. Personally the Nawab had inspired the people of the place with love, admiration and esteem for him. He was proclaimed Nawab with the usual solemnities. Mr. Chase, the then Collector of the Kurnool District, installed him on the guddi of his, ancestors, offering him his sincerest congratulations and wishing him many years of health, prosperity, and usefulness in the position to which he had succeeded.

Three years after the above Sunnud was issued the widow of the late Nawab again commenced to annoy the present ruler by defying his authority. The Collector of the District proposed to constitute a punchayet to consider the dispute and bring about a reconciliation between the present ruler and the widowed Begum. The subject came up for consideration before the Government of Madras when the following proceedings were passed : —

"The Government observe that subject to the sovereign authority of the British Gevernment, the NawpjD of Banganapalli possesses under Sunnud limited criminal jurisdiction in his Jaghir, but has the uncontrolled administration of civil justice, and of revenue matters, and is answerable for the good government of the Jaghir. There are certain obligations imposed upon him in regard ' to his general management, but nothing which in any way whatever invests the Collector of Kurnool with any > J i