their books. It brought the author expressions
of appreciation from many eminent persons in-
cluding Sir Frederick Pollock and Lord Napier of
Magdala, and it made an enthusiastic English
gentleman write a poem, England to India and
dedicate it to Nizamat Jung.
Nizamat Jung was made an officer of the
Qrder of the British Empire in 1919 and received
the decoration of jQJJE. in the beginning of 1924
and the honour of Knighthood in 1929. About
his Knighthood he told his friends that he had heard
some rumours in advance and had taken steps to
make the authorities understand how embarrass-
ing it would be for him to receive such a distinction
when he was hoping to pass into peaceful obscurity.
But he was nevertheless ' dubbed * Knight in 1929
when the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, visited Hydera-
bad.
" Thus in the Knight the hermit see,
For pride was but a veil
And valour hid humility
In sack-cloth'neath the mail."
I think of these lines of his whenever I review
his career in my mind, and wonder if he would not
have preferred to win his spurs on the field at
Agincourt.
Shortly after Sir Nizamat's retirement, a
journalist wrote an article from which I quote the
following paragraphs :
" During the teixjupst eventful years follow-
ing the Armistice, to have acted the part of a