Memoirs of Cyril Jones: People, Society and Railways in Hyderabad

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Summary: What a life - Hyderabad & districts in early 1900s
Review: An excellent book giving us a rare look into life in the Nizam's Dominions in the early 1900s through the eyes of Cyril Lloyd Jones. Jones although an extremely clever man (an engineer) and one whose services would have been snapped up in the US and elsewhere, gave no consideration for self but put his country (England) and his adopted home (Hyderabad) and the friends he made there first. He enjoyed the outdoor life, the jungles and camping and the shikar - although he did not shoot very much. Hyderabad and the Nizam's Government are indebted to this man for his unselfishness in giving of himself to build the NSGR (Nizam's State Guaranteed Railway) one on which I travelled (safely) many times during my life in India.

A rare record, a rare book and a rare man.

Highly recommended for all Hyderabadi historians.