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happened to see it in the Morning Post, felt sure
that no other Indian but he could have written
such lines. An official of the India Council was
approached for information; he made it clear
that Nizamat Jung was the same as Nizam-
uddin Ahmed of Hyderabad. " And since then
that friend has done much by way of encouraging
me in my poetical work and making it known
in England/' said Sir Nizamat Jung in grate-
ful acknowledgment.
His old friend, Sir David Barr wrote to him
in 1914* to say : "It will have a good effect in
England to read the lines written by a Mohamma-
dan gentleman holding a high position in the
great Mohammadan State of Hyderabad, be-
cause among other lies spread abroad by our
unscrupulous enemies there have been statements
of a venomous character reflecting on the loyalty
of Mohammadans in India—and declaring that
they only await the defeat of England by Ger-
many to raise a Jehad against the British rule
in India."
In this way the poem was a service to the
Empire.
*/ndta to England was quoted some years later in the 'Romance of
the Baghdad Railway* by Rev. Parfit in a lecture :
" The Kaiser was mistaken, for there are powers even on earth that
are ^mightier than the sword. There was no revolt among the seventy
millions of Mohammadans in India, but there was a remarkable response
of loyalty to England, and on the very day the first Indian troops landed
at Marseilles, a beautiful poem appeared in the London Times, written
by a Mohammadan Judge of the Native State of Hyderabad. It expresses
the sentiments," he said, " of cultured Indians towards a nation to
whom they in India owe all that is best in Ufe. * *