Mohammad Shah (Sultan)

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Aga Khan, the title of the religious head of the Borah Ismailian community of the Mahomedans in India, East Africa and Central Asia. Here the reference is to the Aga Khan III, formerly Sultan Sir Mohammad Shah (1877-1957); Member of the Viceroy's Council, 1902-04; founder of the Muslim University at Aligarh, 1910-20; leader of the Indian Delegation to the League of Nations, 1934-37; President of the League of Nations Assembly, 1937. He wrote his Memoirs in 1954.

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