Minister, RajaNirandhar Pershad,for a year or so.
Then followed the formal installation of the
Nizam in 1884 and assumption of power by him:
and he selected as his Dewan the eldest son
of Sir Salar Jung—Nawab Mir Laik Ali Khan
(afterwards Salar Jung, Imad-us-Saltanat). The
choice proved ill-omened ; for, there soon arose
serious misunderstandings between Master and
Minister, and in 1887 the latter had to resign.

" He knew that the door was being opened
by English education for the admission of new ideas
and new models of progress, but there was an
important reservation in his heart, that whatever
was necessary or convenient to adopt must be
made to work in harmony with the character of
our people. He was liberal so far as advancement
for the good of his people was concerned, but sus-
picious of such innovations as were likely to affect
the admitted prerogative of Hyderabad' to do the
best in its own way.'

" His long-sighted mind enabled him to
foresee more easily than others the danger of
imitation being carried too far. It was a mind
capable of examining and selecting and adopting
all that was beneficial in such a way as to give it
a distinction of its own, and the colour of Hyder-
abad.

" The pressure of circumstances from within
and without increased the difficulties of his
position from year to year towards the end, and