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(1909-10) and as Chief Justice for two years
(1916-18). "
Nizamat Jung's friends knew how reluctant
he was to accept titles of honour. He had in fact,
I believe, informed the Prime Minister, Maharaja
Sir Kishen Pershad, on the occasion of the late
Nizam's forty years' Jubilee, that he did not wish
to become a Jung, but was told that the omission
of his name, when so many officials were about to
be honoured, might be misconstrued as a sign of
the Nizam's displeasure.
In 1915 Nawab Nizamat Jung as a High Court
Judge was deputed together with two other
officials to discuss the question of the equitable
distribution of the waters of the Krishna and
Tungabhadra risers with the Madras Government.
He is said to have conducted the negotiations with
the British Indian representatives (among whom
was a Judge of the Madras High Court), with such
tact that the Governor of Madras, Lord Pentland,
and his Council could not but accede to the rea-
sonable demands of the Nizam's Government —
which the Madras Government had been refusing
to admit for fifteen years. Mr. (afterwards, Sir)
Reginald Glancy wrote to him on the occasion as
follows : —
" You are very much to be congratulated
on the final success of your negotiations with
Madras in the Tungabhadra case. Mackenzie
(Chief Engineer) gives you all the credit for this
success and says without you we should never
have gained our point—I am going to bring the