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the ryots? The fair for this year came off on Sunday, the 30th of November. Several high officials of the State went to wit- ness it. And one of them, the Nawab Medhi Hassan Fateh Nawaz Jung proposed the health of "one whose name was inseparably connected with the advance, the prosperity and well-being of the Eastern Division,"-that is, the Nawab Intesar Jung-in terms that could not be applied to any one person living. He spoke of the lucky Nawab as perfection all round. I am not going to quarrel with him for this, for I know as well as any one else, that every one has his own way of looking at things, has neither the same eyes to look with or the same medium to look through. But only I wish to look at his "perfection" for a little while as a servant of the Government- as the Revenue Secretary. According to a Government order a sub-tenant could be ousted out of a land, by the owner, within 12 years of his possession of it by means of a complaint to a Revenue Court. And yet those at the head of affairs in one of the Divisions disposed of thousands of cases on the assumption that a sub-tenant in possession for 3 years could not be ousted except by a complaint to the Civil Court-the more costly of the revenue and civil courts. The Nawab Mushtak Husain who must have, as the Revenue Secretary, heard some of these cases in appeal, failed to take any notice of this injustice-this con- travention of Government orders. Then again, Mushtak Hussain, though placed in possession of the most notorious facts about the administration of the Parbani District has not stirred so much as a finger of his with regard to the matter. Such instances could be multiplied. So much for Mushtak Hussain as the Revenue Secretary-for 'his sympathy towards the ryots.'
I should like to tell you how the Hindu Rajas in His Highness's Dominions fare at the hands of the clique in power- what a hard time of it they have under the present regime. You will remember that some weeks ago I referred in your columns to the litigation threatening between the Raja Sahib of Anagondi and Bausi Rajah because the latter, the Raja Sahib's creditor,
