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Born. To the Aga Khan III, 57, Indian prince, sportsman, direct descendant of Mohammed and spiritual leader of all Ismaili Moslems; and the Begum Aga Khan, 34, his Roman Catholic wife, one-time French dressmaker; a son. their first; in the American Hospital. Paris. Name: Sadruddin Aga. The Aga Khan's legal and spiritual heir remains his son AH. 26, resident of England, by a first wife...
From British India will come 22 Hindus, 15 Moslems, two Sikhs, a Parsee, a Buddhist, a Christian. Socially the delegates range from the pale and paunchy Aga Khan, smart racehorse breeder and spiritual head of Ismaili Moslems (so holy that priests peddle his used bath water), to lowly Rio Bahadur-Rettamalle Sprinivasan Avargal, representative of Indian "untouchables." Sure defenders of the most conservative British position at the conference will be ten ruling princes of Indian native states. Well do they know that the existence of their realms, possibly their own existence, is dependent on Britain's maintaining a strong...