AN ATTEMPT AT EVALUATION
I have now known Nizamat Jung for nearly a
quarter of a century. Those days seem remote
when I went to him as a student many years ago,
but they come back when I visit him now and
we discuss religion, morals, literature, and some-
times politics, with the same zest and freedom as
before. We may differ, and sometimes differ
radically on some points, but I have always
had a deep respect for his views. His life, it
seems to me, has been a happy and harmoni-
ous one by blending in itself all that is best in
the Eastern and Western cultures. Educated
and brought up amidst the surroundings of
Victorian England, Nizamat Jung's mind has
been constantly in touch with all that is noblest
in the life and literature of Europe. He never
lost faith in the efficacy of religion as the best
elevating influence in the life of man, because it
gives a spiritual value to practical^ morality;
hence his deep reverence fouthe ..Qur^an^ and his
love for the great Persian poets.
Nizamat Jung was fortunate in not having
allowed his mind to become one-sided; it al-
ways remained open to currents of thought
from different sources to be reduced to definite
conceptions. His whole career appears to re-
present an endeavour to rise above the superfi-