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Aga Khan III speaks at a meeting held to protest against the treatment of Indians in South Africa - 1913-12-10
Posted March 17th, 2009 by heritage
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Wednesday, 1913, December 10Location:
December 10, 1913 - Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III gave a speech at a meeting held to protest against the treatment of Indians in South Africa. It was published in 'the Times of India', Bombay, 17 December 1913.
He talked about the calamities in South Africa and how Britain would not have tolerated similar treatment to Englishmen, the elementary human injustice and proposed a conference to solve the problems of Indians in East Africa.
'Gentlemen, let us warn our rulers in time, not to barter away the prestige of England for justice throughout India in order to please a few white Imperialists...' (Aziz; 468)
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H.H. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III- 2869 reads