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Accounts at Bombay, an unforeseen event led
to his recall to Hyderabad. Mr. Glancy, the
Finance Member of the Executive Council, was
obliged to go home on urgent private business.
The Nizam seemed at a loss regarding the selection
of a suitable person for the important Department
of Finance, and I ventured to suggest Mr. Hydari's
name on the ground that he had gained valuable
experience of our finances as Accountant-GeneraL
. It is well-known how he worked as Finance
Member of the Executive Council for a number
of years, how his restless energy pushed on the
• scheme of the Osmania University to completion,
| what he achieved in the Railway Department and
how he gradually rose to prominence as a British
Indian statesman till his death in 1941.
He was a man of great capacity., for laborious^
work and had uncommon pertinacity in carrying
out his aims. Though sometimes differing from
him in opinion while we were colleagues in the
Council, I never failed to appreciate his solid and
noble qualities, for which he had my admiration,
and hoped to discover in him some distinct sign
of greatness of soul. But his pursuit of expediency
in quest of popularity and his adroitness in ad-
justing practical means to desired ends, seemed to
prevent him from rising to greater heights, a fact
I always regretted.
Though not a literary man himself, he had a
feeling, for literature, as he also had for a certain
kind of art. And it is to his credit, that, with all
'his engrossing official work and far-reaching
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