to forget. In the early days of his Kotwalship
an incident occurred which caused great terror in
Hyderabad and completely upset all law and
order for a few days. On the roth Moharrum in
the year 1885-86 there was a quarrel between
some Arabs and policemen near the Purana
Pul (Old Bridge) which gradually became a riot.
It was said that some children belonging to the
family of the great Arab Chief, Sultan Nawaz Jung,
who were going on an elephant towards the
river to see the alams were stopped by the
police. The Arabs accompanying them at once
made this a quarrel with the police, and as
soon as the news reached Sultan Nawaz Jung,
he is said to have given orders to his Arabs to
attack the police wherever they could find them.
The result was that in a few hours the Arabs were
in possession of a number of police stations and
the police were powerless against them. It was
like an open revolt against constituted authority,
and the disturbance was so serious and so wide-
spread that special and strong measures had to
be taken. The military were called in, but order
was not restored until two or three days had
passed. Whatever the causes of the Arabs'
excitement may have been, their actions were
certainly criminal and disloyal.
The Prime Minister, Nawab Salar Jung Imad-
us-Sultanath, ordered an enquiry to be made into
the affair by appointing a commission and Sultan
Nawaz Jung being held responsible for his Arabs'
misconduct was ordered to leave Hyderabad for