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Safety First is the policy of the Richest Man, and in Hyderabad this continued to mean last week the flourishing reign of probably the ablest native government in India, with its key statesman Finance Minister the Nawab Sir Akbar Nazarally Hydari. During the cycle of Depression his famed "Three-Year Budgets'' have always balanced with a surplus and Hyderabad taxes have not been raised. Sir Akbar's system is to have an annual accounting of each Government Department provisionally, but to carry forward to a so-called "Grand Accounting" only every three years. He will close...
...would have been "gossip" and un-British actually to name the Nawab, but last week Reynolds' Illustrated News of London printed: "Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, was a bit bewildered when he was entertained at tea recently by a wealthy Nawab. To show in what honor he held his visitor, the Nawab had a fire made of rupee notes to boil the water...
...Total cost of the fuel was Rs. 3,000 ($1,110). Doubtless the viceroy would have felt more honored if the notes had been given to the Nawab's poor subjects...
...Jubilee procession (see p. 21), Patiala rode in a State carriage behind his King, together with His Majesty's other Honorary Indian Aides-de-Camp: H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, H. H. the Maharaja of Bikaner and the Nawab Malik Sir Umar Hayat Khan. In this attendance on the King Emperor the kings find their highest prestige. Because the Maharaja of Bikaner is today the Prince in waiting to George V of the Indian Empire, he plans to stop in London for a year. English friends call him "The Englishman," their highest praise. Last week...
...June 1756, Suraj-ud-Dowlah, Nawab of Bengal, capturing Fort William at Calcutta, put 146 English prisoners into a dungeon, 18 ft. by 14 ft., with two small windows. After one night in the dungeon, all but 23 of the prisoners were dead. The shot of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Clive of India cost $30,000, stays on the screen for 15 seconds...