REGISTERED No. L. 3181 .
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY .
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY .
NEW DELHI , THURSDAY , JANUARY 28 , 1937 .
FOREIGN AND POLITICAL DEPARTMENT
NOTIFICATION .
New Delhi , the 28th January 1937 .
No. 55-H . The following correspondence is published for general information.
B. J. GLANCY ,
Political Secretary to the Government of India .
Kharita, dated New Delhi , the 7th November 1936 .
FROM-HIS EXCELLENCY THE VICEROY AND GOVERNOR- GENERAL OF INDIA,
TO-LIEUTENANT - GENERAL HIS EXALTED HIGHNESS ASAF JAH MUZAFFAR- UL- MULK WAL MAMALIK, NIZAM - UL - MULK NIZAM - UD - DAULA, NAWAB SIR MIR USMAN ALI KHAN , BAHADUR , FATEH JANG , FAITHFUL ALLY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ,G.C.S.I. , G.B.E. , NIZAM OF HYDERABAD AND BERAR.
After compliments . I have much pleasure in transmitting to Your Exalted Highness the enclosed letter from His Imperial Majesty the King , Emperor of India, addressed to Your Exalted Highness in which His Imperial Majesty has expressed much satisfaction at the conclusion of the Agreement whereby the territory of Berar will continue to be administered together with the Central Provinces in the manner provided in the Govern- ment of India Act , 1935 , while remaining under the sovereignty of Your Exalted Highness which the Agreement confirms . His Imperial Majesty has availed himself of this occasion further to recognise thethe sovereignty of Your Exalted Highness in the territory of Berar by the association of
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Berar with Hyderabad in your dynastic title and by the grant of the title of His Highness the Prince of Berar to be held by the Heir-Apparent of Your Exalted Highness and of your successors .
His Imperial Majesty's letter is a signal token of the friendship which has existed for so long between the British Government and Your Exalted Highness's illustrious House and I offer to Your Exalted Highness my warmest congratulations on this mark of His Imperial Majesty's favour .
BUCKINGHAM PALACE , 27th October , 1936.
YOUR EXALTED HIGHNESS ,
I have learned with much satisfaction of the signature by His Excel- lency the Viceroy and Governor-General on my behalf and by Your Exalted Highness of the Agreement whereby the territory of Berar will continue to be administered together with the Central Provinces in the manner provid- ed in the Government of India Act, 1935 , while remaining under the sove- reignty of Your Exalted Highness which the Agreement confirms .
I have been glad to avail myself of this occasion further to recognise the sovereignty of Your Exalted Highness in the territory of Berar by the association of Berar with Hyderabad in your dynastic title and by the grant. of the title of His Highness the Prince of Berar to be held by the Heir- Apparent of Your Exalted Highness and of your successors .
Trusting that Your Exalted Highness may long continue to enjoy health and prosperity, I sign myself
Your sincere friend , and Emperor ,
EDWARD R.I.
Kharita , dated Hyderabad Deccan , the 23rd November 1936 .
FROM LIEUTENANT - GENERAL HIS EXALTED HIGHNESS ASAF JAH MUZAFFAR- UL-MULK WAL MAMALIK , NIZAM - UL- MULK NIZAM - UD -DAULA , NAWAB SIR MIR USMAN ALI KHAN, BAHADUR , FATEH JANG , FAITHFUL ALLY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT , G.C.S.I. , G.B.E. , NIZAM OF HYDERABAD AND BERAR,
To-HIS EXCELLENCY THE VICEROY AND GOVERNOR - GENERAL OF INDIA .
After compliments .---I have much pleasure in acknowledging Your Excellency's Kharita , dated the 7th November 1936 , transmitting a letter from His Imperial Majesty the King Emperor .
It is difficult for me adequately to express how gratified I feel by the. gracious message contained in the King Emperor's letter, and how greatly I value the signal honour which His Majesty has been pleased to confer on my House by associating Berar with Hyderabad in my dynastic title, and by the grant of the title of His Highness the Prince of Berarto the Heir- Apparent of myself and of my successors .
I can assure Your Excellency that I value nothing so highly as the friendship that has so long existed between the British Government and my House , which has now been signalised afresh by the mark of favour which His Majesty the King Emperor has been pleased to bestow on it .
I would also thank Your Excellency most sincerely for the kind con- gratulations contained in your letter which I greatly appreciate, and for the sympathetic attitude of yourself and your Government which has enabled the Berar negotiations to be brought to this happy issue .
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HYDERABAD DECCAN , 23rd November 1936 .
YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY,
I desire to offer to Your Imperial Majesty my loyal and sincere thanks for your gracious letter of the 27th October 1936 , which has been transmit- ted to me by His Excellency the Viceroy .
It is a matter of supreme gratification to me that my sovereignty over my territory of Berar has been so markedly recognised and confirmed in a very real manner by Your Imperial Majesty in the Agreement recently sign- ed by His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor -General on Your Imperial Majesty's behalf . It will also be a matter of deep satisfaction to myself and my successors that Your Imperial Majesty has been graciously pleased further to recognise my sovereignty over my territory of Berar by the asso- ciation of Berar with Hyderabad in my dynastic title , and by the grant of the title of His Highness the Prince of Berar to be held by the Heir - Appa- rent of myself and of my successors . This is a signal token of the bond which has long existed between the Crown and the Nizam of Hyderabad, and I can assure Your Imperial Majesty that I prize that bond very highly .
I beg to subscribe myself Your Imperial Majesty's sincere Friend and the Faithful Ally of the British Government .
MIR OSMAN ALI KHAN .
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY
KING - EMPEROR OF INDIA .
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