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certain other Jamats up-country and accounted to the Aga for the
gross receipts.
The Judge : It appeals natural that there should have been such
an arrangement, this being the great sea port. I suppose the goods
and money were sent hence, by way of the Persian Gulf ?
Mr. Howard. No doubt. There are other entries of the kind my
Lord, but 1 only think it Necessary to mention a few of them. In the
account book of the Bombay Jamat for 1818, there is an entry, every
word of which is important because your Lordship will remember
that it was about this time that Aga Khan succeeded to the Musnud.
Here the Aga is spoken of as the only true " Guru" (religious teach-
er of Hindoos). I say that it is subject to the strongest comment
that people should now come before the Court and assert, in the face of
such evidence as we have here, that the Khojas merely treated Aga
Khan as a nobleman and relative of the Shah of Persia, and that it was
not till the year 1830, that he set himself up as Pir. Some, at least,
of the persons who instruct my learned friends, in particular, the more
elderly of them, must know perfectly well, that the statement they
make is entirely false and without foundation. In another entry the
Pir Salamutis credited with Rupees 90, part of the money received on
account of people admitted to the Khoja caste, at Zanzibar, and for
the administration to them of the dust of Kerbela. In an entry in
the account book of the Bombay Jamat, for 1820 it is stated that a
son having been born to Shah (or Pir) Hoossain Ali (Aga Khan)
a present in money was given to the person (Fakir Noor Ma-
homed Kasimir) who brought the good news from Persia.
(Having read all the corresponiience and the entries referred to,
together with further entries of monies sent to Aga Khan as the Pir,
Mr. Howard went on to say) The payments go on till September
182G, when there is a pause, and this enables us to understand
the reason for Aga Khan's sending his messenger to collect his
dues in the year 1828-29. In 1829 the first bill was filed
in his name, but as he says, without his authority. Now
with what consceince can the relators allege, as they do
in the bill, that Aga Khan first set himself up as the Pir of the
Khojas in 1831 1 I repeat, that allegation must have been false, to
their own knowledge. They make no suggestion to explain how the
Aga obtained his influence with the Khojas, and the mere excuse that
certain other Jamats up-country and accounted to the Aga for the
gross receipts.
The Judge : It appeals natural that there should have been such
an arrangement, this being the great sea port. I suppose the goods
and money were sent hence, by way of the Persian Gulf ?
Mr. Howard. No doubt. There are other entries of the kind my
Lord, but 1 only think it Necessary to mention a few of them. In the
account book of the Bombay Jamat for 1818, there is an entry, every
word of which is important because your Lordship will remember
that it was about this time that Aga Khan succeeded to the Musnud.
Here the Aga is spoken of as the only true " Guru" (religious teach-
er of Hindoos). I say that it is subject to the strongest comment
that people should now come before the Court and assert, in the face of
such evidence as we have here, that the Khojas merely treated Aga
Khan as a nobleman and relative of the Shah of Persia, and that it was
not till the year 1830, that he set himself up as Pir. Some, at least,
of the persons who instruct my learned friends, in particular, the more
elderly of them, must know perfectly well, that the statement they
make is entirely false and without foundation. In another entry the
Pir Salamutis credited with Rupees 90, part of the money received on
account of people admitted to the Khoja caste, at Zanzibar, and for
the administration to them of the dust of Kerbela. In an entry in
the account book of the Bombay Jamat, for 1820 it is stated that a
son having been born to Shah (or Pir) Hoossain Ali (Aga Khan)
a present in money was given to the person (Fakir Noor Ma-
homed Kasimir) who brought the good news from Persia.
(Having read all the corresponiience and the entries referred to,
together with further entries of monies sent to Aga Khan as the Pir,
Mr. Howard went on to say) The payments go on till September
182G, when there is a pause, and this enables us to understand
the reason for Aga Khan's sending his messenger to collect his
dues in the year 1828-29. In 1829 the first bill was filed
in his name, but as he says, without his authority. Now
with what consceince can the relators allege, as they do
in the bill, that Aga Khan first set himself up as the Pir of the
Khojas in 1831 1 I repeat, that allegation must have been false, to
their own knowledge. They make no suggestion to explain how the
Aga obtained his influence with the Khojas, and the mere excuse that