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Diamond Jubilee Day of Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah 2015-08-17
Posted August 17th, 2015 by librarian-hd
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Aga Khan III Event - 1946-08-17Date:
Tuesday, 2015, August 18Location:
Today 69th anniversary of Diamond Jubilee Day of Hazrat Mowlana Sultan Muhammad Shah
The first celebrations were held at Brabourne Stadium in Bomabay, India.
The Diamond Jubilee celebrations at Dar-es-Salaam followed in August, 1946. To it thousands of people came from all parts of the world, especially lndia, Europe and the Middle East. Hundreds made the journey by air, thousands by train, by car and by lorry, from all parts of Africa, many enduring much hardship in travelling from such out of the way places as Abyssinia, Belgian Congo, Uganda. Convoys of cars came from South Africa.
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