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...although they have been under the heaviest pressure from New Delhi to enter the Federation, had last week signed on the dotted line. Last December, speaking for His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, "Richest Man in the World," and ruler of India's most important state, Sir Akbar Hydari said of Federation: "So far from being anywhere near finality, we have not yet reached the state of negotiations." A few weeks ago, after personal aides of King George and experts of the India Office had journeyed out to the Empire, judged the temper of the Indian people...
...Allah Akbar . . . God is great. . . . The Imam droned prayers, snatches from the Koran in Arabic, sitting cross-legged near his pulpit in a long green robe and a green fez (signifying that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca). Squatting on prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the U. S. It was the eve of Ramadan, to Mohammedans the holiest and most rigorous month...
Another item is the so-called "Zafarnams," a history of the conqueror Tamurlane, completed in the fifteenth century, and containing the signatures of three of Persia's great emperors, Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan. The volume contains six double-page paintings by Bihzad, greatest of Persian miniature artists. It is a loan from Robert Garrett, of Baltimore...
...Nizam dismissed the Diwan or acting cabinet and directed affairs as his own Prime Minister for some years with such vigor that "The Residency" was often rumored pressing for his abdication. Came the War. The Nizam's $100,000,000 gift to Britain squared many things, and Sir Akbar Hydari now manages to square the rest. However, the Richest Man considered his Royal Family not too exalted last week to accept the hospitality of British Duncan George Mackenzie, in the white-columned palace...
...being more or less Britain's whip over his fellow Princes. In the secrecy of their courts and councils last week India's ruling Princes tensely and suspiciously watched the Indian elections. Strongest figure on the princely stage was the Nizam of Hyderabad's trusty Sir Akbar Hydari, firm demanding of the British Raj virtual amendment of the new Constitution by insertion in the Act of Accession, presenting for the signature of His Exalted Highness and other native rulers, such ultrasafe clauses as: "Nothing in this instrument affects the continuance of my Sovereignty in and over this...