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in the Hyderabad State for 12 years, or who has
served the government for 12 years (however long
ago) shall be a Mulki in perpetuity!
" It is, of course, a great satisfaction to all con-
cerned that the right grounded upon so slender
a basis becomes an indefeasible heritable right.
Inconsiderate philanthropy has seldom assumed a
more amiable form. A son or a grandson of the
first favoured person may, even after the lapse of a
century, come from some far-off country to claim
this birthright. There is romance in the idea! I
do not* believe there is any other State in the world
that can compete with ours in such thoughtless
generosity. It is possible that the framers of
our law may not have known the essential condi-
tion of domicile, namely, the absence of intention
to revert to the land of birth, or they may have
regarded it as unduly obstructive to the spirit
of adventure/' The influx of outsiders (a few
good and many bad, and many more of an indiffer-
ent type) has brought about as great a change in
social as in official morals. And one of its results
is the complete disappearance of the quiet, respect-
able and self-respecting middle class official of
the past—a survival of the times of the First Salar
Jung. Under him a superior class of aliens was
imported, much care and discretion being exercised
in the selection, and the result was that we
occasionally got a really superior type of man."
* * *
" The gradual disappearance of that indige-
nous type, which represented the old school of
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