By Way Of Preface Journal Article

But this "birthday" of ours coincides with the end of a period of far greater im• portance: the period of twenty-five years during which His EXALTEDHIGHNESS THE NIZAM has reigned over a country great in area and population. Vast irrigation works have been completed, well-appoined hospitals have been set up, a great new University teaching in the most widely known of Indian languages, Urdu, has been established. The religious tolerance which characterized the Mughal Empire-of which Hyderabad is the only portion which remains today-has been preserved most carefully, the Nizam's Govern• ment patronizing and assisting all religions in the State. Besides his many other achievements which will give his name a secure place in Muslim-Indian history, he is likely to be acclaimed by posterity as a monarch who built always for public welfare and never for mere display, the greatest builder known in India since the time of Shah Iahan.