The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-31
NATIVE STATES OF INDIA
NIZAM OF HTDERABAD IS -
GREAT

| StrOn ghOI0.
The Eastern Empire over which his
Majesty is proclaimed Sovereign at
Delhi" writes the correspondent of
the London Telegraph has been called
! not so much a country as a continent.
But is it less continent than a world
apart, with room for world within
world.
The Native States, which recogniz-
ed their suzerain by their State entry
into Delhi in the Viceroy's train, are
that inner World-bound to the central
authority by the most various and lib
eral regime that could be conceived I'M
der Asiatic conditions for the purpose
Of knitting vassals to a crown. They
enjoy an internal sovereignty in many
cases more complete than the au-
tonomy of the German States or those
of the American Union. Their terri
tories extend over nearly a third of the
whole Indian Empire. Their subjects
number an aggregate population of TO-
600 COO. With the stimulus of the I'M
perial power, but largely through their
own effort and initiative, they are de-
velOping in the methods of modern civ
ilization more rapidly than any Asiatic
communities outside our rule except
Japan.
| The Nizam is the second Mohamme-
dan ruler in the world. He governs a
territory larger than the whole of Great
Britain. He rules a larger population
than that of any secondary State in
Europe next to Spain. In his capital of
| Hyderaad, where it is still social and
comparatively harmless custom for
men to swagger through the streets or
to sit in the bazaar with belts and CIR
| dies full of weapons murderously curv-
| ed, his Highness holds naughty and
Sultanic state. Not far away from his
court lie all the ruins and romance of
| Golconda, the dazzling scene of East
ern fable since the adventures of Sind
bad.
Although the Nizam claims descent
from the successor of the Prophet and
first Caliph of the Faithful Abu Becker,
his dominion is not of old date as the
Rajputs count antiquity. 1t was cary
ed out of the decaying empire of the
Moguls by the great Turkoman adven-
turer, Asaf Jah, whose father had sub
dued for Aurungzebe the dominions
that the son finally secured for himself.
"A unique feature at the durbar was
a Mohammedan Princess in her own
right, the Begun of Bhopal That
state was also quartered out of the en-
pire of the Moguls by an Afghan SOL
der of fortune, originally employed as
one of the generals of the Lords of
Delhi. For three carnations in curious
succession there have been three Be
gums of Bhopal, though the sovereign
ty promises to pass at last from the
distaff side to that of the lance in the
person of the present male heir. Than
the lady who now rules the state his
Majesty has no more loyal vassal.
Far more striking still is the in
stance of the great feudatory who
comes second in point of the extent
Indian princes-the Maharaja of
Mysore-governing dominions little less
large than Scotland. Rich and beauti-
full among all the tracts embraced in
the endless variety Of the wonderful
empire, Mysore has become model
state, keeping even pace In many re-
spects with British India itself. At the
other extreme of the Indian world lie
the possessions of the Princes of the
Punjab, who have been since the Sikh
wars, through the Mutiny and onward
among the most vigorous and effective
vassals of the Empire, prompt and
trenchant in emergency as the leap of
steel.
pass to what is by far the noblest
tale of all-the memories that unite
Rajputs and Englishmen by national
friendship, touched on both sides with
affection, that bind the proudest and
purest of the Indian races to the King
Emperor and the British Raj by SEN
timent fired with all the immortal ro-
nance chivalry Of their heroic blood.
Every English schoolboy knows, or
ought to know, something of the epic
of these clans who have again and
again realized In unquestioned fact
more than all the knightly ideas of
Arthurian romance. Whether they are
Aryans in origin, as was long assumed
or Scythians, as late measurements
have given more reason than before to
conceive, the Rajputs are by many GEN.
turtles the oldest ruling race surviving
in the modern world.
Before Troy was they were. They
held the sovereignty of the great king
doms of Delhi and Dude a thousand
years before modern Europe emerged
from chaos or the prophet of Mecca
arose to preach the intense and terri
BILE faith that was to sweep the world
from the Straits of Gibraltar to the
Bay of Bengal and to subject Spain
and Carthage, Byzantium and Egypt,
the Persian and the Rajput to Moslem
masters. Had the princes Of the old
warrior race Of India been united the
conquest of India might have been i'm
possible to Islam. Even divided as they
were, they kept out the Moslem for
hundreds of years in a longer and
sterner struggle than any other nom
European race has ever made against
the Crescent. But they made war
about women with mad chivalry in face
of the Pathan precisely as we found
them making it century ago in face
of the Mahratta, PrithWe, Raja Of
Delhi the Lord of the World, was de-
feated and slain a little before the time
of Magma Charta. His queen mounted
the pyre. The conquering Afghan had
swept down the Ganges, overthrowing
the thrones of the solar race and lunar
race alike, with equal indifference to
the whole subject of astronomical
SanctitV in kings,