PREFACE
The appearance of this book is due to the suggestion of some friends who were kind enough to think, and had influence enough to make me believe, that the letters I had written to the Madras Hindu in my capacity of its Hyderabad Correspondent during 1890 and 1891 deserved to be rescued from the oblivion that is the fate of newspaper contributions generally. When this fact has been stated, there is little, I think, that remains to be added by way of bespeaking the indulgence of the reader for any blemishes in the manner in which facts are put forth, popular feeling is portrayed and honest comments are fearlessly made in the following pages.
I have omitted a few paragraphs that could be of momentary interest and importance only, and corrected a few insignificant errors here and there. In all other respects the letters appear in this volume exactly as they did in the columns of the Madras Hindu.
The Hyderabad Correspondent.
1st November 1892.
