Dictionary of Indian Biography/Abdul Hak, Sirdar Diler Jung ul Mulk
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ABDUL HAK, SIRDAR DILER JUNG UL MULK (1853–96)
Son of a small hereditary chieftain in the Dekkan: joined the Bombay Government service before he was 20: in the police, captured a dangerous dakait: made C.I.E.: joined the Hyderabad service: Sir Salar Jung sent him to England to obtain an alteration in the guarantee which the Nizam had given on his State railway: for effecting this, he was handsomely rewarded: was given a mining monopoly in the Nizam's state, from which he made a personal profit of nearly a quarter of a million: but, after the publication of the facts in 1888, he suffered political downfall at Hyderabad: and strove in vain to regain his position in the Nizam's service: died May, 1896.