Word: bombay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December 3 a second meeting will be held at which another man familiar with conditions in India will speak. The Reverend Dr. Alden Clark, who is undertaking a large social service enterprise in Bombay and knows the conditions there, will give an illustrated lecture to bring his audience into touch with a vital form of work being done in India...
...Hivale is at present studying at the University. He is a native of Bombay, and intends to return to teach at the University of Bombay when he receives his degree. His subject will be "What India Thinks of Missionaries...
...nearly extinct in Persia, but has a small, powerful constituency in the vicinity of Bombay, India. Their most highly prized virtue is purity, with which elaborate ceremonies are associated; and they look forward to a Heaven from which all filth is excluded and in which the light (Mazda) shines ever bright...
...conditions are much better at the present time and will be further improved by the Conservative Party coming into power. I expect that Sir George Lloyd [ex-Governor of Bombay] will be the next Viceroy when Lord Reading retires, which will be in April, 1925, if not before...
...Califate on the Bosphorus, Islam became torn by the question of the succession. Who was to be Calif of Islam? Ex-Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, who was temporal and spiritual head of Mohammedanism, said he was Calif; but that did not settle it. The Agar Khan of Bombay, the Emir of Afghanistan, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco, King Fuad of Egypt all wanted to be Calif. The President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, said that the Turkish Parliament would in the future impersonate the Calif. Abdul-Medjid Effendi, last Turkish Calif, declared with his predecessor, Mohammed VI, that...