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“The Aga Khan, the head of all Mohammedans of India, who is supported by the contributions of the pious, keeps half dozen racing stables in France alone, a shooting box in Scotland, an apartment in Paris and a chateau on the Riviera.

The Aga Khan, while not a ruling price, for he has no territory, nevertheless exercises more political influence in India than any individual native ruler. This by reason of the fact that he is the spiritual head of the thirty million Mohammedans in India. His sanctity is so great, indeed, in the eyes of his followers, that the water in which he bathes is carefully conserved and sold annually to the representatives of various Mohammedans at a ceremony held once year at Aga Hall in Bombay. The price paid for this holy water is Aga Khan’s own weight in gold, the scales used for the weighing ceremony being adjusted to the fraction of an ounce troy. As  the Aga Khan is a plump little man the price paid for his used bath water is a high one.

ANTI INDIAN

It is generally understood that in recognition of his services in keeping the Moslems of India loyal to Britain, The Aga Khan receives a secret and by no means inconsiderable subsidy from the British Raj. His value to the Paramount Power was strikingly evidenced early in 1929, when he presided at the All Indian Mohammedan conference, held in Delhi. The most momentous question on the agenda was whether the assembled Moslems should indorse the demand, made aa few weeks before by the Indian National Congress, a Hindu organization, that India should be granted “dominion status” within a year. The Aga Khan, an eloquent orator aand an astute statesman, solved the dilemma by deftly guiding the Mohammedan conference into adopting a resolution which completely ignored the Hindu demands. Whereupon British officialdom heaved a deep sigh of relief, for the virile, warlike Moslems count for far more than the servile, easy going Hindus, even though the latter vastly outnumber them. If The Aga Khan is worth his weight in gold to his Moslem followers, to the British whom he so steadfastly befriends he should be worth his weight in diamonds”

From the book “The Last Home of Mystery” by E.AlexanderPowell, London, 1929

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Aga Khan is a religious title like Dalai Lama, Pope, Shankaracharya. He is the religious head of Ismaili Muslims. Wikipedia has given the list of Aga Khans until today:-

1. Aga Khan I – Hasan Ali Shah Mehalatee (1800–1881), 46th Imam of Nizari Ismailis (1817–1881)
2. Aga Khan II– Ali Shah (about 1830–1885), 47th Imam of Nizari Ismailis (April 12, 1881 – 1885)
3. Aga Khan III– Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah (1877–1957), 48th Imam of Nizari Ismailis (August 17, 1885 – 1957)
4. Aga Khan IV– Prince Shah Karim Al Husseini (b. 1936), 49th Imam of Nizari Ismailis (July 11, 1957 – present)

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My comments

1.Now we know British started dividing India from very early days by secretly giving the Muslims, money.

2.We can guess how much other Anti Indian parties like Justice Party and other Dravidian parties received from the British.

3. Muslim holy water is praised by the writer. If it is Hindu holy water they would have criticised as unhygienic, unholy, source of bacteria etc.

4.I am pretty sure that the anti-Hindu “rationalists” would have kept quiet about this holy water sale! We know they are cowards and double-tongued!

–Subham–