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a bulwark against hardships and sufferings."
A lady friend wrote to him in the same
year from America: " Also I feel your mess-
age : truth and right shall be established in time.
You have spoken from your heart and every word
rings of courage and belief in the eventual
triumph of the Divine Will/'
Sir Nizamat Jung, as was once remarked by
an English gentleman, lived in a higher world
than ours, and his desire was to be a soul con-
veying helpful messages to other souls. It is
interesting to recall that Maulana Mohammad
Ali had called him a " calm Olympian " as early
as 1910.
In 1938 a Hindu gentleman who had been
tutor to his nephew, wrote about him :
" Occasional interviews showed me some
aspects of Sir Nizamat Jung's many-sided
nature and quickened my interest in studying
his character by which I felt strongly attracted.
He was then living at HILLFORT, a mansion
created by his love of mediaeval architecture.
What struck me was that he should find it
easy to be playing his own architect in giving
to Hyderabad such an attractive building at
the very time when his official duties as Political
Member of the Executive Council, involving
daily attendance at the Palace and frequent
interviews with the British Resident, kept his
mind anxiously occupied from day to day. The
power of complete detachment at will, which the