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(6) that the Nawab Vicar-nl-mulk has maintained a studious silence in regard to several letters addressed to him on the matter;
(7) that a police picket productive of great annoyance and mischief has been levied on the Samasthan;
(8) and that the Minister has taken away all the powers that the Rajas of Anagondi exercised for many decades.
A stronger array of facts has not been, nor can be, produced to prove the arbitrariness of the Minister, and the nature of the advice tendered to him by his arch-adviser the Nawab Vicarul-mulk—and yet the facts have had little weight here. They reveal a powerful combination against this poor Hindu prince— a combination composed of the Minister, the Revenue Secretary and the Private Secretary to His Highness the Nizam. There is the Revenue Secretary to advise, the Minister to issue orders, the Private Secretary to keep His Highness in the dark about any representations that may be made to him through him; and thus everything necessary is secured to accomplish 'the annihilation' of this ancient Hindu samasthan which ewes its existence to His Highness. What has the poor prince done to deserve all this at the hands of these mighty men? God knows what It is true that he, with a due sense of the dignity of the Rajas of Anagondi, did not go down on his knees at the interview he had with His Excellency Sir Asman Jah Baladur. But surely this cannot be a justification for the extraordinary treatment that the Rajasahib has been subjected to. If it is—in the eyes of the powers-that-be—"what chance has an obnoxious official or individual of faring better than the Raja," it may well be asked. The Raja Sahib of Anagondi is also a British subject, his mother, Ranee Kuppamma, laving been in receipt of a pension from the Government of Madras. And if this pathetic appeal to His Highness the Nizam fail to secure any redress—and I am sure it will not so fail—he will have to seek it, no doubt, at the hands of the British Government from which the veriest beggar can claim justice or the undoing of injustice.
