The castes and tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam’s dominions: Preface

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Preface

This article is an extract from THE CASTES AND TRIBES OF H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS BY SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and Middle Temple, London. One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. BOMBAY THE TlMES PRESS 1920 Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Secondly, this has been scanned from a book. You can help by sending the corrected version/ additional information to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

Preface

This work was undertaken with great enthusiasm, if not by myself certainly by a devoted band, headed by the late Mr. Kale of the Educational Department, who travelled through the Domi- nions and thus obtained at first hand valuable information regarding the Tribes and Castes that inhabit the Hyderabad Deccan : I followed them, not everywhere but as far as I was able, to check their investigations and revise the monographs prepared by Mr. Kale. The Fates were against us from the outset : a serious affection of the eyes — not to mention my official and numerous other engage- ments — made me despair of these pages ever seeing the light of day. A more severe loss was the sudden death of Mr. Kale when the last pages of the draft lay before him. If kind friends had not come :Jo my assistance, I could not have consented to the publica- tion of the work at all, despite the gentle and kindly pressure of the Department of Finance which had entrusted me with the work. I am, however, hopeful that the material which has been collected may afford others an opportunity of contributing, in better shape and form, to ethnographic literature.

I must acknowledge my indebtedness to the learned gentleman who produced similar work in Bombay, for to make our own efforts complete, we had to look for help from the other side with regard to such castes as the "Ahirs" and others, who' are to be found in the frontier districts of Khandesh and Nasik. I would have acknowledged in detail the various monographs from which we borrowed; but as Mr. Kale is no more, I am hardly in a position to do so. My thanks are especially due to my old and capable friend Mr. J. E. Lee, who very kindly saw the work through the Press; also to Mr. Shawcross for looking over some of the articles as they came from the Typist.

A word of thanks to the eminent Surgeon Oculist who attended me will not be out of place; for it is due entirely to the great skill of Dr. Duggan that I am able to read these pages at all. No further apology is needed to the readers of these monographs when they know under what physical strain I had to bring out the work. Its deficiencies will no doubt be patent and I shall always be grate- ful for friendly criticism which will help to improve a later edition.

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