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THE HINDUS AND THE NIZAM'S GOVERNMENT.
HYDERABAD, 13th October 1890.
It is marvelous how public opinion is being educated, shaped and formed into a factor for the good of the country-by the influence of the Madrasi and the Bengali. Those here who, in season and out of season, thunder their anathemas against these for their "meddlesomeness" and "intellectual dishonesty" have little honesty to perceive the real good that they are doing to Hyderabad. And those in power find it little convenient or to their advantage to confess it. But the fact remains that but for the advanced Madrasi and the Bengali the wishes and feelings of the people might have been to-day as much a sealed-book to those at the helm of affairs as they were a few years ago. This is but by the way.
The "gross injustice" of the appointment of a committee of orthodox and ill-informed men to decide, from a religious point of view, whether Hindu students could cross the "kala pani," and of the condition imposed by the Government which requires of a student a good knowledge of Persian and Urdu to offer himself as a candidate for the Government scholarship and which prevents many a promising Iyderabadee youth from taking advantage of the opportunity afforded of proceeding to England for purposes of education-is felt strongly and widely here. And the public are bestirring themselves to memorialise the Government with regard to the matter. A meeting of the Chadarghat Social Club was held last night to consider the proposition brought forward by one of its members, Mr. Krishnamachari, B.A., B L., viz., that the Government be nem- orialized in the matter of sending Hindu students to England for purposes of education. It was a large gathering fully represen- tative of the cult and intelligence of the Hindu portion of the population of the place. In the absence of Rajah Murli Manohur Bahadur, the President, Mr. B. Krishna Iyengar, Vice-President of the "Club," occupied the chair.
