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He was a personal friend of my father and uncle
and I am glad to say that in my early official
career I had the opportunity of cultivating his
'acquaintance when I was serving as Under-Secret-
ary in the Legislative Department. We met
frequently at committee meetings to discuss drafts
of bills and he came to have in course of time
an opinion of me that induced him to offer me
the Revenue Secretaryship. It was a great com-
pliment to a junior officer, as I then was, and I
felt flattered by it, but I excused myself on the
ground that my career lay in the Judicial IJepart-
ment.
I once took the liberty of suggesting to Mr.
Dunlop the desirability, not to say the urgent need,
of having the multifarious revenue gashtis which
were in a state of confusion, reduced to an orderly
and compendious form. And I further pointed
out to him how necessary it was to have a definite
procedure followed in revenue cases and to have
some finality in the decisions. I remember that
he got a committee appointed to go into these
matters and I can even recall the name of one of
them, Moulvi Abdul Qader (afterwards Qader
Nawaz Jung), but what the committee actually
achieved and what the result of its recommenda-
tions was, I do not know.
His Highness the late Nizam was pleased to
put Mr. Dunlop in charge of the management of
the Salar Jung estate during the minority of the
present Nawab Salar Jung. It is said that the
estate was managed well under his control and