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Aga Khan III gives a speech at the 5th Annual Meeting of the London Muslim League - 1913-07-14
Posted March 17th, 2009 by heritage
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Monday, 1913, July 14Location:
July 14, 1913 - London: Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III gave a speech at the 5th Annual Meeting of the London Muslim League. He spoke of the Indian Muslim youth in England, relations between Turkey and Britain, Muslim solidarity, the importance of education, relations between different races in India, potential influence of sports and the leaders of the future.
He said, '...the young men sojourning here are the leaders and the fathers of the future; though they are to be numbered only by hundreds, they represent the hundreds of thousands of men of varying degrees of English education in India, seeking to come more and more in touch with European thought and ideals...' (Aziz; 458)
Also present at the meeting were Sir H.H. Shephard, C.E. Buckland, M.A. Jinnah and Mirzah Ali Mohammed Khan
The speech was published by 'the Times of India', Bombay, August 2 1913. The 'Times of London' carried a brief version on July 15. .
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H.H. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III- 4630 reads