Aga Khan : Title of the spiritual head the Bōrāh/ Khōjā Ismailian sect of Shia Mahomedans in India, East Africa & Central Asia. They are descendants of the mysterious & dreaded “old man of the mountains” who descended from Ali (the Prophet’s cousin & 4th Caliph) & his wife Fatima (the Prophet’s first child) & fled from Persia 40 years before Ali’s murder. The Aga Khan who was born in 1800, assisted the British with his light horse in the Afghan was 1842, for which he was given a monthly pension of Rs 1000. He resided a short time in Calcutta, then moved to Bombay. He exercised an almost absolute control over his subjects from whom he received an annual tribute amounting to a lakh of rupees. He died on April 12, 1881. Here the reference is to Aga Khan III, formerly Sultan Sir Mohammad Shah (1877-1957), a member of the Viceroy’s Council, 1902-04. The first move of the Viceroy to counter the massive nationalist agitation & a wave of terrorism that followed on the heels of the partition of Bengal was meeting the All-India Muhammedan Deputation (1st Oct.1906) led by this Aga Khan who was conferred the status of Leader of the Muslims – disregarding the fact that the All-India Muslim League was the Govt. inspired forum of politically minded Muslims of the country. In 1910 he founded the Muslim University at Aligarh. The Govt. continued to treat him as Leader of the Muslims on many a crucial occasion in later years, e.g. invited him to the Round Table Conferences of 1930-33, appointed him leader of Indian Delegation to League of Nations, 1934-37, nominated him President of League of Nations Assembly, 1937. In 1947, he forswore Indian citizenship & vanished from the Indian scene. [S. Bhattacharya; Buckland; Durga Das’s India-From Curzon to Nehru & After, 1969]
... Foundation of the Muslim League (1906) In the meantime, the urge of the Muslims to organize themselves politically led to the founding of the All-India Muslim League at Dacca in 1906. With the Aga Khan (18771957) as the permanent President and Nawab Salimullah Khan (the Nawab of Dacca), Nawab Muhsin-ul-Mul, Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk and Mohammad Ali (1877-1931) as the core of its leadership, the League ...
... Gokhale stumping the country to recover the lost ground and the Bengalee taking the brief of the all-powerful executive I cannot be a silent spectator of the cold-blooded deposition of Demos. The Aga Khan too has entered the lists. Alarmed at the Extremists' talk of freedom from British control, the combined wit and wisdom of the country is making a dead set at this crazy class so that prudence and ...
... Aurobindo 24-25 DECEMBER 1939 PURANI: Sir Sikandar has gone to Bombay to see Jinnah, perhaps for some compromise between Congress and the League, and the Aga Khan also is starting for India. He too may try for some rapprochment. SRI AUROBINDO: It is no use unless they can get rid of Jinnah from the League. SATYENDRA: The Sindh Premier is trying to get ...
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