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PART ONE
CHAPTER I.— LIFE'S STAGES
EARLY YEARS
Jig^MUDDiN AHMED (Nawab Sir
Nizamat Jung^baiiadur), second son of
Moulvi Shaikh Ahmed Hussain (Nawab
Rifat Yar Jung Bahadur), was born at Hyderabad
on the 22nd of April, 1871. He received his early
education at home and then attended the Madrasa-
i-Aizza founded by his father under the patronage
of Sir Salar Jung I in the seventies of the last
century.
He appeared for the Madras University Matri-
culation Examination in 1884, proceeded to
England in the Jubilee year, 1887, entered Trinity
College, Cambridge, in 1888, took the degrees of
B.A. and LL.B. in 1891, at the age of 21 and was
called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1895
at the age of 24.
He is said to be descended from Hazrat Abu
Bakr Siddiq, the .first Khalif, through Shaikh
Shahabuddin Suhrawardy, the great Muslim Saint
of Baghdad. I am indebted for his , genealogical
chart to a book written by my uncle, the late
Khan Bahadur Shams-ul-Ulama, Nawab Aziz Jung
Bahadur. According to him, the family tree
records such prominent names as Qazi Hamiduddin
Nagori, Shaikh Kamal, Shaikh Aman, Shamon
Pasha and Haji Abdul Latif whose mother had
nursed the Emperor Aurangzeb.