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The Finances of India – II
Date: 30 March 1904 Location: Calcutta Speaker: Aga Khan III Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz Full Text Russian expansion-India must be alert and prepared-the burden of Imperial defence must be borne equitably by the Imperial Government and the Princely States – every chief should contribute some money towards Imperial defence… Read more
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The True Purpose of Education
Date: 1904 Location: Bombay Speaker: Aga Khan III Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz Full Text The assembly to his mind represented all that was best in the Muslims of India. It expressed that awakening sense of their fallen position after a glorious past; it expressed dissatisfaction with their present intellectual,… Read more
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The Finances of India – I
Date: 25 March 1903 Location: Calcutta Speaker: Aga Khan III Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz Full Text The burden created by the salt tax – income tax exemption – vast majority of Indian children do not receive elementary education need for universal primary education and increased grants devoted to higher… Read more
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In the Days of My Youth
Date: 15 August 1902 Location: Not specified Speaker: Aga Khan III Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz Full Text Reminiscences of the last twenty-five years – memories of grand father – brief imamat of father – fostering care provided by mother – early educational background – interest in racing and sports… Read more
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Muslim Education in India
Date: 1902 Location: Delhi Speaker: Aga Khan III Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz Full Text Advantages which Muslims of India possess – schools needed to teach boys and girls the Faith and modern secular science Muslims have neglected industry and commerce – the moral disease among Muslims not congenital but… Read more
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An Agenda for the Indian Muslims
Date: 23(?) December 1910 Location: Bombay Speaker: Aga Khan III Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz Full Text Why Hindu-Muslim unity is essential-ways of achieving it-Muslim sphere of work broad and catholic – the mosque in London forthcoming visit by the King to India – an opportunity to create a Muslim… Read more
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Indian Muslim Aspirations
Date: 16(?) January 1930 Location: Antibes Speaker: Aga Khan III Source: Speeches of Aga Khan III – K K Aziz Full Text Sind as a separate province – reforms in the North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan. In his letter published on January 14 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, complaining of lack of effort to counter the… Read more