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must be observed," says the sage of the "Punch" "that is Raja Murli Manohur's, that the present Gov- ernment wants that there should be good management in the Malwala Daftar, and that Raja Marli Manohur is a member of the Malwala Daftar." A more malicious and mis- chievous paragraph than this I have not come across. Every man with a modicum of commonsense must admit that the "Hindu Social Club" is no more Raja Murli Manohur's than it is the Vice-President's or the Secretary's or any member's. As President of the Club, the Raja can only advise the members on the matters that come up occasionally before him-he can neither do anything against the wishes of the majority, nor can he turn and twist them about as he likes. With regard to the scholarship question itself: I know it for a fact that when one or two of the members spoke to the Raja about memorializing the Government, he told them that he was sure the Government would throw the scholarship open to Hindus as well as to other sections of the community. The members memorialized in spite of his telling so. And if he "purposely absented himself" from the meeting convened to draw up a memorial, as we are given to understand by Punch, did he not thereby make it clear that he did not wish to join in the cry of "injustice done to Hindus?" As for the Raja Murli Manolur's wishing that there should not be good management in the Malwala Daftar of which he is a member; he is admitted on all hands to be one of the most intelligent and energetic men we have in Hyderabad. It can be no more said of him that he does not want the manage- ment to be 'good' than it can be said of a strong robust man that he is afraid to have a tussel with a weakling. And to state that from interested motives the Raja wants to discredit the present Government-is to invent an untruth with a view to make him obnoxious to the party in power.
The Birth-day Durbar has come and gone, and the Raja Kishen Persad finds himself none the better for it. The Raja who is the living representative of a family but for which Hy-
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