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3. CABINET COUNCIL

             The Council of State was established on February 1884 A.D. by Nizam VI, Mir Mahboob Ali Khan. The Council of State was Legislative and Executive body, but it seldom met and hardly transacted any business. Nizam was not satisfied with such State affairs. The year 1893 was very important for the second stage of a definite Constitutional advance in the administration of Hyderabad. The important changes were made in the constitution of the Government through a farman dated Ist Rajab 1310H/ 20^th January 1893 A.D.in the form of a Qanuncha -i – Mubarak. It was an exhaustive document of great importance in which Nizam the VI had reviewed the previous administration of the State, pointed the major defects of existing system and put forth the scheme of his reforms. The important features of the new scheme were the institution of the Cabinet Council in place of the Council of State for running Executive business and Legislative Council for framing laws. The prime Minister was the President of the Cabinet Council. All Important matters of the State were referred to the Cabinet Council.

            The most important provision in its creation was that the Cabinet should submit all unusual matters to the Nizam, who had the right of postponing, modifying, amending or changing the Cabinet proposals. All the records including farmans of this department are in Urdu. The records of this department were transferred to Daftar-i - Diwani in 1945.

The particulars of the records of Cabinet Council Secretariat are given below:

Sl. No. Nature of the Documents       Periodicity    No. of Documents

A. Files

1 Accounts Register 1894-119A.D 54

2 Files of the office of the Cabinet Council 1839-1919A.D. 1,837

3 Files pertaining to the case submitted to the Cabinet Council 1892-1920A.D 576

4 Files of the proceedings of the Cabinet Council 1892-1920A.D. 238

5 Files of the Sub Committee for suggesting procedure for Appointments 1892A.D.onwards 25

6 File of the Peshi-i- Mubarak (Nizam Private Secretary office) 1889-1892A.D.    100

7 File Registers 1883-1919A.D 99

8 Inward Registers 1892-1919A.D. 27

9 Miscellaneous Registers 1893-1919A.D 43

10 Outward Registers 1893-1919A.D 34