Date: 16 November 1932
Location: London
Speaker: Aga Khan III
Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz
Full Text
Indians coming nearer to each other – the new Constitution India’s place among the Dominions. . . . His Highness said that, as chairman of the British Indians, he was happy to think that as time had gone on the Indians had drawn nearer to each other. He sincerely hoped and believed that the Constitution they had assisted to frame would be such as would satisfy Indian opinion and would be capable of being worked as a Federal system through the transition stage to the time when India took her full place in the great federation of Dominions which made up the British Empire.
Source: The Times, London, 17 November 1932.
This statement was given to The Times in London a little before his departure for France after the completion of his work as chairman of the British Indian Delegation to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. At Victoria railway station, from where he departed, he was garlanded by A. H.
Ghuznavi, a fellow delegate, on behalf of the Orient Club of London, and presented with an address. The address stated that the club was composed of men of all creeds and castes of India and that it greatly appreciated the fact that in the last three years the Aga Khan had combined, for the first time in modern history, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and other delegates. In reply, the Aga Khan said that “he looked to his young friends to take their part in the work of building up a better and happier India” ( The Times, 17 November 1932).
The Aga Khan was scheduled to sail for Bombay on I December.