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Then I find an English member of the Indian
Round Table Conference regretting Sir Nizamat
Jung's non-inclusion in the Hyderabad Delegation:
" I had hoped you would have been with us
for the Round Table Conference. I remember
your tact in the negotiations with the Madras
Government, and the issues in this business are
infinitely more serious with correspondingly
greater risks to His Exalted Highness' rights
and privileges......We should have been
stronger with your co-operation."
A member of the India Council wrote to him,
"May I sometimes write and exchange views
with you on some of the problems that we have to
face ? You have the great gift of being able to
look at these questions from an angle that does
not present itself to most people."
In the evening of his life, despite indifferent
health, he takes genuine pleasure in explaining
his views to people and his advice is sought
by thoughtful persons because he has the great
gift, perhaps on account of his detachment, of
harmonising conflicting interests; and he is
essentially a peace-maker. He insists on politics
being founded on ethics and general good-will;
and his belief is that the improvement of a com-
munity should start from within.
I think it would not be out of place to
mention here that whenever the Presidentship
of the Executive Council was under considera-
tion, the eyes of all well-wishers of Hyder-
abad fell on Nawab Nizamat Jung. He would