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PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)' [‎44r] (87/136)

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The record is made up of 1 file (65 folios). It was created in 10 May 1930-8 Mar 1939. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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(E 1527/1034/65)
Confidential.
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.l.
5th April, 1938.
Sir,
With reference to Foreign Office letter No. E 1982/1662/65
of the 1 st May, 1937, I am directed by Viscount Halifax to
transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Zetland,
the accompanying copy of a despatch from His Majesty’s
Ambassador at Cairo regarding the possibility of the
proclamation of the King of Egypt as Caliph, and the views of
the Aga Khan thereon, together with a copy of His Lordship’s
reply. It appears that the Aga Khan, when consulted by Sheikh
el Maraghi, gave the Sheikh some reason to believe that he
approved the idea of the institution of territorial caliphates
in Mohammedan countries.
2. As you will see from paragraph 13 of Sir Miles
Lampson's despatch, His Excellency is anxious that the matter
shall not be raised with the Aga Khan unless His Highness
should himself mention it. Subject, however, to Lord Zetland's
observations, Lord Halifax hopes that, in the event of the Aga
Khan doing this, every effort will be made to dissuade him from
pursuing the idea further.
I am.
Sir,
Your obedient Servant.
^ ■ *-^ v E^GGALLAY,
The Under Secretary of State ,
India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .

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The file contains mainly despatches received by the Foreign Office, reporting on the Egyptian proposal to establish a modern Islamic Caliphate under King Farouk. The main correspondents are Sir Miles Lampson, British Ambassador to Egypt, and Sir Reader William Bullard, Minister at the British Legation, Jedda. They comment on the reaction and support for the revival of the institution of the Caliphate among Muslim leaders Ibn Saud (King of Saudi Arabia) and the Aga Khan (Aga Khan III), as well as among Egyptian and Turkish government ministers. The file also contains Government of India correspondence from the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in the Home Department, concerning the religious propaganda activities of Egyptian ulema (Muslim scholars) sent abroad, and a report about the likely reaction of Indian Muslims to a revival of the Caliphate. There is a personal memorandum in French, from the former Turkish minister General Chérif Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to the British Government in 1930, advocating a Caliphate in Muslim India under the rule of the exiled, former Ottoman Caliph Abdul Medjid II. There are news articles published in the Pratap , Lahore, The Egyptian Gazette , Cairo and the journal Great Britain and the East , London.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (65 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 67; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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