subject, he made it his own. Knowledge
seemed to come to him more easily than it does
to others, because all the faculties of his mind
were vigilant, sympathetic and receptive. His
favourite preoccupation was education for the
purpose of moral and social reform. Thus he
became the preceptor of his age and was the
founder of the Madrasa-i-Aizza in 1876 and of
the Nizam Club in 1884. And he was the man
who recommended in the same year the forma-
tion of the Hyderabad Civil Service Class and
also of a special class for boys to be sent to
England. Moulvi Syed Hussain Bilgrami,
Nawab Imad-ul-Mulk, once said of him, "I have
not known another man like him in Hyderabad."
And Sir Syed Ahmed Khan remarked to friends
that he '' had no idea that there were such men
in Hyderabad."
I have no doubt that some of these qualities
are Sir Nizamat Jung's best heritage, and it is of
great interest to know in what manner the influence
of his father and his example operated upon his
character. He remarks :
" Every good influence from whatever source
it came, found its way to my heart and the
earliest and best of its kind was my father's,
who had a wonderful way of imparting good to .
others, not only by his words but by his manner,
his looks and his example. He had the secret
of conveying the good that was in him by
personal magnetism, so as to make people feel
as though they were receiving into themselves