JAMAL UDDIN AFGHANI GROUP OF SPY AND FREEMASON
Sir Agha Khan-1 was the Pir of Jinnah Poonja , the Father of Muhammad Ali Jinnah Who Partitioned India and Founded the country of Pakistan . he was one of spies of Jamal Uddin Afghani Group
He was Part of First Tools used in Wahbized Indian Punjabi Islam and was Founder of Agha Khani Sect , that claims to be Ismaili but are actually Deviants and not considered to be real Ismailis related to Egyptian Ismailis , It may be noted that Agha khan-1 , was British Loyalist and Freemason .
Sir Agha Khan -1 Was also Founder of ” 2 Nations Theory that is basis of Pakistan and Bangladesh after Partition of Indian Subcontinent and his Links with Lord Curzon.
He Provided the Solution, to break the Resistance of Joint Hindu and Muslim towards the British During world War-1 , when Britain’s Forces had suffered Numerous Losses to Germans and Japanese and would have Lost the Prized India to British immediately after World War-1 .
His Proposal of ” 2 Nations Theory “, Divided the Resistance of All Indians as Muslims and Non Muslims Hindus and Sikhs Against the British
but it was Favorable to British as they Continued to Rule for another 50 Years , by dividing the Combined Front of Hindus and Muslims.
He founded the Muslim League, that favored the British and made the Punjabis and Bengali Muslim Help the British as Soldiers under British Army officers and Helping Save the Queen British Raj in World War-1 and Later in World War -2 .
he managed to Fail Gandhi Led Quit India and Civil Disobedience Movement as well as Khalifat Moment via his Services , that was Done by all Indians irrespective of religion.
Even Quran and true Islam does not believe in Islamic Nation Hood as 2 Nation Theory , suggests and , Principals of Islamic Nation ( As boundaries and King Ship Defines a Nation not Religion )
His 2 Nation theory and Muslim League Spoiled the 1500 Year efforts of Muslim Ruling India to Retain their Power of India because of ” Divide and Rule” because of Religion by the Agha Khanis and Muslim League .
AGHA KHAN -1 IN SERVICE OF BRITISH IN IRAN
It all started from Sir Agha Khan -1 was Part of Jamal Uddin band of Spies and he was Partner of British Raj since his Early days in Iran and his Rebellion Against Shah Qajar the Kings of Iran
The Imam Hasan Ali Shah of Agha Khan -1 , 46 th Imam / Mulla was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati in 1815. Shah Khalil Allah was killed in Yazd during a brawl between some of his followers and local shopkeepers.
While Khalil Allah resided in Yazd, his land holdings in Kahak were being managed by his son-in-law, Imani Khan Farahani, husband of his daughter Shah Bibi. After Khalil Allah’s death, a conflict ensued between Imani Khan Farahani and the local Nizaris (followers of Imam Khalil Allah), as a result of which Khalil Allah’s widow and children found themselves left unprovided for and very poor .
He was succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah also known as Muhammad Hasan Agha khan who became the 46th Imam , but he is more known as Founder of Agha Khani Sect which was Deviant from Ismaili Islam in its Instructions and was more of Illuminati and Freemasons Project , that had close links with Sottish Freemason society .
Persian king Fath Ali Shah gave his own daughter, princess Sarv-i-Jahan Khanum, in marriage to the young Imam Hasan Ali Shah of Agha Khani -1 as when he Moved to Quam City of Iran , and provided a princely dowry in land holdings in the Mahallat region.
King Fath Ali Shah also appointed Hasan Ali Shah as governor of Qumm and bestowed upon him the honorific of “Aga Khan.” Thus did the title of “Aga Khan” enter the family. Hasan Ali Shah become known as Aga Khan Mahallati, and the title of Aga Khan was inherited by his successors.
Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.[1] At the time, Kerman was held by the rebellious sons of Shuja al-Saltana, a pretender to the Qajar throne. The area was also frequently raided by the Afghans.
Hasan Ali Shah managed to restore order in Kerman, as well as in Bam and Narmashir, which were also held by rebellious groups. Hasan Ali Shah sent a report of his success to Tehran, but did not receive any material appreciation for his achievements.
Despite the service he rendered to the King of Iran Shah Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.[1]
Refusing to accept his dismissal, Agha Khan-1 , Hasan Ali Shah withdrew with his forces to the citadel at Bam. Along with his two brothers, he made preparations to resist the government forces that were sent against him. He was besieged at Bam for some fourteen months.
Hasan Ali Shah sent one of his brothers to Shiraz in order to speak to the governor of Fars to intervene on his behalf and arrange for safe passage out of Kerman. With the governor having interceded, Hasan Ali Shah surrendered .
He was seized and his possessions were plundered by the government troops. Hasan Ali Shah and his dependents were sent to Kerman and remained as prisoners there for eight months. He was eventually allowed to go to Tehran near the end of 1838-39 where he was able to present his case before the Shah.
King Persian Iran , Shah Qajai , pardoned him on the condition that he return peacefully to Mahallat. Hasan Ali Shah remained in Mahallat for about two years.
But Agha Khan -1 Rebelled againt the King of Iran Shah Qajar , He managed to gather an army in Mahallat which alarmed King Muhammad Shah, Qajar
King of Persia Shah Qajar who travelled to Delijan near Mahallat to determine the truth of the reports about Hasan Ali Shah. Hasan Ali Shah was on a hunting trip at the time, but he sent a messenger to request permission of the monarch to go to Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage. Permission was given, and Hasan Ali Shah’s mother and a few relatives were sent to Najaf and other holy cities in Iraq in which the shrines of his ancestors, the Shiite Imams are found.[1]
Prior to leaving Mahallat, Hasan Ali Shah equipped himself with Fake letters appointing him to the governorship of Kerman. Accompanied by his brothers, nephews and other relatives, as well as many followers, he left for Yazd, where he intended to meet some of his local followers.
Hasan Ali Shah sent the Fake documents reinstating him to the position of governor of Kerman to Bahman Mirza Baha al-Dawla, the governor of Yazd. Bahman Mirza offered Hasan Ali Shah lodging in the city, but Hasan Ali Shah declined, indicating that he wished to visit his followers living around Yazd.
Hajji Mirza Aqasi sent a messenger to Bahman Mirza to inform him of the Fake Documents of Agha Khan -1 Hasan Ali Shah’s documents and a battle between Bahman Mīrzā and Agha Khan Hasan Ali Shah broke out in which Bahman Mirza was defeated.
Other minor battles were won by Hasan Ali Shah before he arrived in Shahr-e Babak, which he intended to use as his base for capturing Kerman.
At the time of his arrival in Shahr-e Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city’s citadel, and Agha Khan Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.[1]
Soon after March 1841, Hasan Ali Shah set out for Kerman. He managed to defeat a government force consisting of 4,000 men near Dashtab, and continued to win a number of victories before stopping at Bam for a time.
Soon, Shah Qajar Sent 24,000 men forcing Hasan Ali Shah Agha khan to flee from Bam to Rigan on the border of Baluchistan, where he suffered a decisive defeat.
AGHA KHAN -1 IN SERVICE OF BRITAIN IN AFGHANISTAN
Agha Khan Hasan Ali Shah decided to escape to Afghanistan, accompanied by his brothers and many soldiers and servants and seek Protection of British engaged in Herat and Kandahar Afghanistan .[1]
Fleeing Iran, he arrived in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1841—a town that had been occupied by an Anglo-Indian army in 1839 in the First Anglo-Afghan War.
As Spy of Jamal udding Afghani and a Freemason close relationship existed between Agha Khan Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842).
After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, he was Appointed as Governor of Herat in Afghanistan on behalf of the British. the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad‘s son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak Jalallabad on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.
The British had grown to be a paramount power in India in the course of the 18th and early 19th century. About the time that the Aga Khan was having troubles in Iran, the British were deeply involved in Afghanistan, and their efforts were aimed at establishing in Kabul a rule that would be friendly to Britain, and prevent the Russian influence penetrating the borders of India, that would possibly threaten the existence of British empire.
The First Anglo-Afghan War, or First Afghan War (1255/1838 to 1258/1842), which is called for heavy sacrifices and untold hardship and suffering, was undertaken partly to counter the Russian advance in Central Asia and partly to place on the throne at Kabul the dethroned ruler, Shah Shuja, in place of Brakzai tribe Durrani King Dost Muhammad (1791-1863).
Thus, the British occupied Afghanistan on August 7, 1839, and placed Durrani Shah Shuja (1780-1842), the amir of Sadozai tribe on the throne of Kabul and Kandhar. Sir William MacNaghten (1839-1891) was designated as the British envoy at the court of Shah Shuja.
By the end of 1840, the signs of revolts among the Durrani and Ghilzay tribes became apparent against the presence of the British in Afghanistan, and the puppet rule of Shah Shuja.
Yar Muhammad Khan, the ruler of Herat also contemplated an attack on Kandhar, and had sent a secret mission to the Iranian governor of Mashhad for acquiring aids to expel the British from Afghanistan.
Thus, the position of the British envoy, Major Elilliott D’arcy Todd (1808-1845) became impaired in Herat in spite of the treasures he had given to the ruler.
In January, 1841 Yar Muhammad demanded further money which, Major Todd knowing his intrigues, refused to pay a penny more until Yar Muhammad gave him guarantee of good conduct, such as admitting a British garrison to Herat.
Yar Muhammad refused and insisted on payment of the British subsidy as usual. Thus, Todd himself withdrew from Herat on February 10, 1841, resulting the British mission to Herat ended in failure.
The internal risings in Kandhar however were put down by the British commander, General Nott in consultation with Major Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895). The British position in Kandhar, nevertheless, was yet insecure.
Agha Khan-1 began to trek from Girishk to Kandhar. On August 6, 1841 the intelligence from Girishk reached Rawlinson, reporting the arrival of the Agha Khan and his hundred horsemen.
major Rawlinson in turn informed to MacNaghten of the Agha Khan’s influence among Shia of Herat and Kandhar and of his importance as an Iranian refugee n Afghanistan Shias and Ismalis.
Henceforward, a close relation developed between the Agha Khan and the British. From Girishk, the Aga Khan had reported his arrival to Muhammad Taymur, the Birtish appointed governor of Kandhar, and also to Major Henry Rawlinson.
Soon after his arrival in Kandhar, the Agha Khan sent a letter on October 21, 1841 to Sir William MacNaghten (1839-1891), the British envoy at Kabul, expressing his reasons for leaving Iran that, was Rebellion Again the King of Iran Shah Qajar of Iran , and his Life in Danger because of Shah Qajar asking for him to be Killed as he had rebelled as Governor of Kerman Iran. and his Intrigues against Iran’s King.
Sir Agha was Knited by the British as thier Loyal subject and he saved his life by runnig for his life and he famously Escaped with British Spy Lal Mohan Jutshi and also Spy Captain and Member of Scottish Freemason society Alexandur Burns, was with him and as well as Brother of Captain Alexander Burns who were killed in herat Afghanistan by the Afghan Up Rising , both Agha Khan and Mohan lal were saved as they recited the Kalima of Islam to Announce themselves as Muslims .
The Agha Khan stayed on as a guest of Muhammad Taymur at Kandhar. He lived very extravagantly in a large house with all his horsemen and servants, and received his allowances monthly from the Afghan revenues, that is 500 rupees for himself and 25 rupees for his each horseman. The number of horsemen he had brought with him was hundred, but later on the number was increased to three hundreds.
REVOLT AT KANDAHAR BY DURRANI PRINCE AKBAR KHAN AND KING DOST MUHAMMAD
The internal revolts in Kandhar were put down by October, 1841 by Nott, in which Akram Khan, the chief of Durrani tribe was executed, resulting a disaffection among the other tribes, and a very serious outbreak took place at Kabul too in November, which gradually spread to Kandhar.
The British position became critical and in the ensuing struggle, the Agha Khan as the ally of the British, was active Participant
Major Rawlinson also made use of the Agha Khan’s influence among the Shiite group, to bring about the success in Suppression of Rebellion against British
In November, 1841, the eastern Gilzays broke into revolt near Kabul in protest against the reduction of their allowances, and occupied the passes on the road to Jalalabad, plundered and cut off the communications of Kabul. On November 2, the insurrection broke out in Kabul and Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841), MacNaghten’s deputy was murdered.
The British lost control of Kabul. MacNaghten tried to negotiate with the raiders, but on December 23, he was too murdered and the condition of the British at Kabul became very critical.
The insurrection spread slowly towards Kandhar. Muhammad Ata Khan was sent by the Kabul party to win the Durranis, and thereby raised an insurrection in Kandhar. To encounter this move, Rawlinson also tried to win the favour of the Durranis against the revel Barakzais. But on December 27, a force of Janbas murdered their British officer, Lieut. Colding at Kandhar.
Meanwhile, Safdar Jang, a brother of Muhammad Taymur also joined the Durranis. To put down the rising, William Nott (1782-1845) on January 12, 1842 fought with the rebels and defeated them. The Agha Khan had also joined Nott and Rawlinson in the skirmish of Killashek with his 100 horsemen. One of the Aga Khan’s men was killed and few others were wounded. Rawlinson, in his report on the Aga Khan mentioned, regarding the event of January 12, that, “On this occasion, Agha Khan, having volunteered the services of his hundred men, was present and was engaged in skirmishing with the enemy.”
AGHA KHAN ROLE IN 1ST ANGLO AFGHAN /PASHTONS WARS 1840
After two months, the Afghan rebel group near Kandhar, prepared for a big incursion under the direction of Mirza Ahmad. The British were in a difficult state. Money was scarce and so was fodder for the cattle. There were no medicines for the wounded in the camp.
On March 7, 1842, Nott resolved to give a severe blow to the rebels. On this occasion, Rawlinson in consultation with Nott formed a Parsiwan Persian Shia troop, with the horsemen of the Agha Khan and other Shia chiefs, Nabi Khan and Mirza Ibrahim and placed altogether 300 cavalry under the command of the Agha Khan. Nott with his forces marched out of Kandhar in pursuit of the enemy and some small skirmishes took place on March 9 1842.
On the following day, Nott continued his onwards marching. Captain Neill, an eye-witness, in his book, “Recollections” (p. 179) mentioned, “A small body of cavalry, commanded I believe, by Meerza Ahmed, who was kept out to employ and deceive us, molested our rear for a short time; they were, however, driven back by Agha Khan, a Persian refugee Prince, who with about two hundred (it was 300) followers, had accompanied our force from Kandahar, and rendered our rearguard some very valuable assistance.”
Rawlinson in his report, dating December 20, 1842 to Governor General, also mentioned that the services at that time of the Agha Khan were such consequence, “that the general thought him deserving of special notice in the report that was forwarded to the government on the occasion.”
As the year 1258/1842 progressed, the state of Afghanistan still remained more critical. In July, Kandhar and Jalalabad were still under the British advanced posts, and the intervening valleys and defiles were in the hands of the Afghans.
Meanwhile, Lord Ellenborough (1841-1844), the Governor-General had arrived in India in succession to Lord Auckland and he decided that the British troops should evacuate Afghanistan.
In July, 1842 the Agha Khan too learned the evacuation programm of the British. Nott with his troops retreated via Ghazna, Kabul and Jalalabad, to Peshawar, and the remaining troops were to return to India via Quetta and Sukkur.
The charge of Kandhar was left in the hands of Safdar Beg.
AGHA KHAN -1 IN SERVICE OF BRITISH IN SIND AND BALUCHISTAN
Baluchistan Quetta.
After the departure of the British forces from Kandhar on August 9, 1842 for Quetta, the Agha Khan stayed on in Kandhar for about six weeks with Sardar Sherdil Khan.
Major Rawlinson who sympathised with him, had advised him to retreat to India. Hence, the Agha Khan reached Quetta on October 5, 1842 and then went to stay with the Khan of Qalat, Mir Shahnawaz Khan for more than a month.
Before he left, he had been given a letter of recommendation to Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853) by MacNaghten., British Commissioner of Baluchistan
The Agha Khan also proposed to accompany the British forces retiring to India via Quetta and then to Sukkur and Finnaly to Jhirk british Cantonment in Sind.
CONQUEST OF SIND AND BATTLE OF MIANI HELPING GENERAL CHARLES NAPIER 1843
By the end of November, the Agha Khan reached Sukkur Sind and met Sir Charles Napier, who had been commissioned a general officer to the supreme civil, political and military control of both upper and lower Sind by Lord Ellenborough on August 26, 1842. In January, 1843, the Agha Khan went with Napier to the British camp at Bhiria and then to Hyderabad with his sixty horsemen. In Hyderabad, he was employed in the British service during the battles of Miani and Dubba.
Sind, about 50,000 square miles in extent, had a population of little over a million in the time of the Mirs. H.T. Lambrick writes in “Sir Charles Napier and Sind” (London, 1952, p 14) that, “The great majority of concurred in the opinion that Sind was crushed by the oppressive government of the Mirs, a selfish, ignorant, and bigoted despotism, delibrately calculated to prevent that development of the country which its great natural resources deserved.
” During the 1840 Anglo-Afghan War, with the Pashtons the Mirs of upper and lower Sind had allowed the British forces to pass through their territories.
In 1840, James Outram was appointed as the British political agent to the Mirs of lower Sind in place of Henry Pottinger. Outram was also made political agent of upper Sind in place of Ross Bell in 1841. Sir Charles Napier held many meetings in December, 1842 and January, 1843 with the Mirs for the negotiations.
However, on January 11, 1843, Napier stormed the deserted fortress of Imamgarh. The Baluchi tribes of one of the Mirs were embittered and on February 14, 1843, attacked the British residency in Hyderabad.
On February 17, Napier marched with his forces on Hyderabad and defeated the Mirs of Hyderabad, Khairpur and Mirpur in the battle of Miani.
The Mirs of upper and lower Sind surrendered except Mir Sher Muhammad of Mirpur.
BATTLE OF OF DUBBA HELPING CHARLES NAPIER
On March 26, 1843, at the battle of Dubba, Napier defeated Sher Muhammad, and the annexation of Sind to the British territories was formally announced on August, 1843.
BATTLE FOR KARACHI WITH KHAN OF KALAT
In Sind, the Agha Khan placed his cavalry at the disposal of the British, and tried to convince Nasir Khan, the then Talpur amir of Kalat, to cede Karachi to the British.
Nasir Khan refused to cooperate, the Agha Khan disclosed his battle plan to James Outram.
As a result, the British camp was saved from a night attack. For his valuable services, the Agha Khan was granted an annual pension of £ 2,000 from Charles Napier with a title of His Highness.
ROLE AT BRITISH CANTONMENT AT JHIRK TOWN SIND
In the 19th century, Jhirk was the busiest river port and centre of commercial activity in Sindh. It also served as the headquarters of the Indus flotilla, the most modern navigational system of those days.
Karachi Port near Karachi was connected to Jhirk. The headquarters of the Indus flotilla was in Jhirk town near Kotri and then it went to Mithankot Rajanpur district near Dera Ghazi Khan and then to the last point Makhad Attock. This part of Indus flotilla was called Punjab flotilla and the Indus flotilla Interchangeably. The British Indus flotilla of steamboats which once plied the Indus river is described by (Shaw 1998).
Hassan Ali Effendi the famous educationist who was instrumental in Establishing Sindh Madrasatul Islam used to Work at Indus flotilla in his early years while learning English. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah was one of his students at Sindh Madrasatul Islam Karachi.
The river Indus was an important artery of communication between Karachi and Jhirk near Kotri Sindh, was an important river port, the Indus flotilla used large quantities of firewood and it was kept to fuel steamboats. Hassan Ali Effendi kept account of the incoming and outgoing wood and Steamboats.
It was because of the commercial importance of the town that the Aga Khan the first or Awal in Urdu/ Persian, constructed his palace over there.
Another testimony to the importance of Jhirk is that one of the oldest British era schools in Sindh, 15 years older than Karachi’s Sindh Madrasatul Islam, was also established in Jhirk, and is still functioning there.
This historical village is situated on the National Highway from Hyderabad to Thatta at 50 km, which near Keenjhar Lake 26 km ahead. It is on the right bank of River Indus 400 feet high above the sea level on the little mountains. During British rule, it was an important place for the English rulers to reside.
The English Capt April Spy of British crown in 1800s especially describes the majesty and weather of the city. He was stationed here from 1832 to 1839 writes that this was a great city consisting of a Bazaar of 200 shops and goods were available here at cheaper prices than Karachi.
CREATION OF AGHA KHANI RELIGION UNDER BRITISH RAJ IN JHIRK
AgHa Khan I built his Mahal (Palace) which is still exists in same good condition. He and his followers which were at least one thousand strong and with their residences there in Jhirk. The British were there too to protect him.
Sir Charles Napier initially made Jhirk the headquarters for the British Army in Sindh when he came to Sindh which was part of Bombay at that time.
A Buddha Stupa on the other side of river Indus indicates the historical position of the city. Despite having a brilliant past, Jhirk present situation is very critical. Very little income sources are found in this city. People are dependent on special Aid and Grants from Government.
While the rest of the population is Living Below the Poverty Line now. Due to the lack of water in Kotri, river. Jhirk town has been deserted by people. All sources of fishing and farming are totally depleted. Many Government employees live here.
Many Graduates and Higher Secondary Pass-out youth from the Mallah Fishermen community pass their life selling brambles or on meagre rural Income resources.
Outside of Agha Khan House Jhirk
After the conquest of Sind in 1259/1843, the British attempted to subjugate neighbouring Baluchistan, in which the Aga Khan again helped them militarily and diplomatically. From Jerruk, where the Aga Khan was staying after February, 1843, he contacted the various Baluchi chieftains, advising them to submit to the British rule. He also sent his brother Muhammad Bakir Khan together with a number of his horsemen to help the British against Mir Sher Khan, the Baluchi amir. Soon afterwards, the Aga Khan I was given a post in Jerruk to secure the communications between Karachi and Hyderabad. Charles Napier writes in his diary on February 29, 1843 that, “I have sent the Persian Prince Agha Khan to Jherruk, on the right bank of the Indus. His influence is great, and he will with his own followers secure our communication with Karachi. He is the lineal chief of Ismailians, who still exist as a sect and are spread all over the interior of Asia.”
BRITISH ATTACKS INTO BALUCHISTAN AND IRAN AGAINST KING SHAH QAJAR OF IRAN FROM JHIRK
H.T. Lambrick writes in “Sir Charles Napier and Sind” (London, 1952, p. 157) that, “Bands of Baluchis had plundered most of the wood and coal stations on the Indus, interrupted the mail route to Bombay via Kutch, and also the direct road to Karachi, whence supplies and artillery had been ordered up. With a view to reopening communications with Karachi, Sir Charles sent the Agha Khan to take post at Jherruk with his followers, some 130 horsemen.”
On March 23, 1843, the Aga Khan and his horsemen were attacked by the Jam and Jokia Baluchis, who killed some 70 to 72 of his followers, and plundered 23 lacs of rupees worth of the Agha Khan’s property. Napier, in April and May, 1843, sent warnings to the Jam and Jokia Baluchis, asking to return the plunder of the Aga Khan and surrender.
In May, 1843, Napier ordered his commander at Karachi to attack and recover the property of the Agha Khan, which was done.
The encounter of Jerruk had been equated by the Agha Khan I, according to the native information, with that of the event of Karbala. In Jerruk, some 70 to 72 Ismaili fidais had sacrificed their lives in fighting with the enemies of their Imam, and their dead bodies were buried on that spot.
It was with the approval of the British government that in 1260/1844, the Agha Khan sent Muhammad Bakir Khan to capture the fortress of Bampur in Iranian Baluchistan.
Later, he also sent his other brother, Sardar Abul Hasan Khan, who finally occupied Bampur iran and won other successes in Baluchistan, while Muhammad Bakir had been relieved to join the Aga Khan in India.
FORMATION OF AGHA KHANI RELIGION IN JHIRK AMIR PIR VILLAGE
The AgHa Khan built his residence at JHIRK , resembling the style that of the Mahallat In iran at time he was Doing rebeliioons againsnt shah Qajar.
Jerruk, a town about 89 miles and 2 furlongs from Karachi via Gharo, Thatta and Soonda; is 150 feet high from the Indus level, having two hills blanketing the town from two sides. About 300 to 350 Ismailis lived in Jerruk, and the Aga Khan I made it his headquarters.
Inside of Agha Khan 1 House
Amir Pir Village Jhirk town .
Amir Pir, Jhirk a minor town with indefinite boundaries is located in the interior Sindh Province in Pakistan. It is situated on the banks of Kinjar (commonly known as Kalri) and Sonari lakes, and lies approximately 130 kilometres from Karachi.
The Ismaili connection to the town of Amir Pir goes back more than 170 years, to the time when the 46th Ismaili Imam, Shah Hasan Ali Shah (Aga Khan I), was forced to leave Iran in 1840. He was accompanied on his eastbound journey by many of his faithful followers and Shiite soldiers.
Upon the Imam’s arrival in Sindh, Sir Charles Napier, the then British governer, asked him to be stationed at nearby Jerruck with a mission to secure communications and restore peace between Karachi and Hyderabad.
Jammat khan At jhirk
in jhirk Town the Jinnah’s paternal grandfather was a Hindu punjabi Rajput Premjibhai Meghji Thakkar. also Covered from Local Hindu Rajput Fisher Man to Agha Khani under Sir Agha khan -1 but is not confirmed that he became Muslim and hence his Grave is not found.
The father of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who come to visit Jhirk for his Aga Khan I Hassan Ali Shah Imam’s Deedar settled here for the rest of his life and is buried there as Poonja and his grave can be found there.
His elder son of Hindu punjabi Rajput Premjibhai Meghji Thakkar , Mr. Poonja father of Mohammed Ali Jinnah was married to Sheeren Bai, the daughter of Moosa Jumo in 1874, who had also migrated along with the Agha Khan.
Some believe that Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born in Jhirk, “but most historians and biographers go along with the official line”.[2]
This is however important that a Maternity Home built by Agha Khan community was described by the Archaeology Department as the proper birthplace of Quaid e Azam and a blue plate remained fixed on the same with such information by the Department for over 2 decades after partition.
Inside of Jamaat Khan at jhirk Sind
He was admitted in the primary school of the town established in 1870. The school’s General Register is missing. Before this controversy when the announcement of his Birth Place was made in the teaching course taught in Pakistan until 1962. It was written as Jhirk in the 8th lession of the course till 1962 in the Books from primary to Graduation level and remained in all level of books up to the tenure of Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto 1976.
Then it was changed to Wazir Mansion (Karachi) near Light House Karachi as Quaid-i- Azam Birth Place and a Fresh controversy arose again about birthplace of Quaid e Azam and a change was made during Gen Zia Government, it was again admitted in the books that Karachi was birth Place of Quaid-e-Azam.
CREATION OF JINNAH FAMILY FOR PARTITION OF INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
The Jinnah family have played an important role in the Pakistan Movement for creation of Pakistan, a separate country for Muslims of India. The family held the leadership of All-India Muslim League, and its successor, Muslim League, until it dissolved in 1958 by martial law and it has become the ciurrent Muslim League led by Punjabi Leasder like Nawaz Sharif and Chaurdhary Shujat .
Originally from a Gujarati background, they moved t Karachi from Kathiawar, Gujarat in the 19th century.
Jinnah’s paternal grandfather was Premjibhai Meghji Thakkar. He was a Lohana Rajput from Paneli Moti village in Gondal state in Kathiawar in Gujarat, India.
He had made his fortune in the fish business, but he was ostracized from his vegetarian Hindu Lohana caste because of their strong religious beliefs.
When he discontinued his fish business and tried to come back to his caste, he was not allowed to do so.
Resultantly, his son, Punjalal Thakkar (the father of Jinnah), was so angry with the humiliation that he changed his and his four son’s religion, and converted to Islam.
Jinnah’s father Poonjabhai Jinno was a first generation Muslim with Khoja Ismaili Firqa belief, however, the next generation switched their belief to Shia Islam. Under Agha Khan-1 .
Jinnah Poonja Father of Quaid I Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (also referred to as only Jinnah) and Fatima Jinnah, have been important figures in the history of Pakistan.
Muhamad Ali Jinnah is considered as the founder of Pakistan and he served as the first Governor General of Pakistan upon independence, while Fatima played an important role in the struggle for Pakistan Movement
The ancestors of Jinnah were Hindu of Lohana caste from Paneli Moti village in Gondal state in Kathiawar in Gujarat, India.
But his grandfather was ostracized from the community because of being involved in the fishing business. Therefore his father became Muslim, though they were a liberal family.
Presently the town of Amir pir is Mysteriously Deserted with it occupants now Vanished into this Air as shown by Video below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcnbRgmEef0
However, a certain Baluchi leader at the time, Mir Sher Muhammad Khan attacked Imam Hasan Ali Shah ‘s soldiers, and the Imam was forced to fight against overwhelming odds. In the skirmish, the Imam fell from his horse and was wounded, and transported to Hyderabad for treatment.
VILLA OF AGHA KHAN-2 IN AMIR PIR VILAGE SINDH
Meanwhile, the Aga Khan quitted Jerruk, and proceeded to Kutchh via the port of Karachi on Ramdan, 1260/October, 1844, which was his first marine trip.
Maharao Shri Deshalji, the ruler of Kutchh feted him with due consideration at Kutchh Mandvi, and took him to Bhuj and gave him a state bungalow for his stay.
The Aga Khan then moved to Kathiawar, where Jam Saheb Shri Ranmalji received him in Jamnagar. For a year, thereafter, he travelled through Kathiawar and came to Bombay via Surat and Daman on December 16, 1845 and was well received with the cordial homage of the whole Ismaili population of the city and its neighbourhood.
AGHA KHAN -1 IN SERVICE OF BRITISH IN BOMBAY AND KARACHI.
Soon after his arrival in Bombay, the Iranian government demanded Aga Khan’s extradition from India, citing the Anglo-Persian Treaty negotiated between Iran and India on November 25, 1814, which reads: “Should any Persian subject of distinction showing signs of hostility and rebellion take refuge in the British Dominions, the English Government shall, on intimation from the Persian Government, turn him out of their country, or, if he refuses to leave it, shall seize and send him to Persia.” The British India was placed on the horns of a dilemma.
It could not, on the one hand, risk a breach of the friendly relation established with Iran, and on the other, surrender to his enemies one who regardless of personal losses and risk of life, had stood by the British as a faithful ally in their greatest hour of trial. At length, however, through the intervention of the British envoy, it was agreed that the Aga Khan should be allowed to remain in India provided he stayed at Calcutta from where he could not be a menace to the Iranian government as from Sind.
Agha Khan Sent to Bombay after Iranian Pressure
The government of India wrote to Superintendent of Mysore Princes and ex-Amirs of Sind, a letter which reads:- “It having been determined upon political considerations that the Persian nobleman Aga Khan Mahallati, shall be required to reside for the present in Bengal. I am directed to inform you that the President in Council considers that it will be expedient to fix the Aga’s residence in the vicinity of Calcutta and to place him under your care. Aga Khan of Mahallati is a nobleman of high rank and allied to the royal family of Persia. He is in the receipt of an allowance of Rs. 3000 per mensem from the British government for services rendered in Afghanistan and in Sind.”
Thus, the Aga Khan was naturally reluctant to go to Calcutta on April 19, 1847 with his 52 followers. After crossing Poona, Ahmadnagar and Khandesh, he reached Indore on June 1, 1847. The British railway had not yet come to India and the journey from Bombay to Indore was overland. The Aga Khan’s men suffered terribly; three died on the way to Indore. Seven arrived at Indore with severe fever and two died there. The Aga Khan also underwent an eye operation at Indore, and left it on June 18, 1847 for Agra, where he procured boats for Calcutta, and reached there some time in August.
Sir Orfeur Cavenagh (1821-1891) had arranged for a house at Dumdum (where the city’s airport is now) in Calcutta under the care of Bengal Presidency.
AGHA WAS NEVER ALLOWED TO VISIT IRAN
The Agha Khan I was however in a new city surrounded by strangers. In June, 1848, the Aga Khan I fell ill, and was sent to hill station, and in July, the residence of the Aga Khan was shifted to Chinsurah in Calcutta. He had to stay in Calcutta for 18 months until the death of King of Iran Muhammad Shah in 1264/1848.
He learnt of this after one month, and immediately approached Maddock, that he should be allowed to return to Iran. The reason for enforcing his detention was now virtually at end.
The Agha Khan I desired to be furnished with facilities to return to Bombay. On December 6, 1848, the Indian Government agreed to send the Aga Khan to Bombay. He quitted Calcutta on December 8, 1848 with his wife and a suite of 40 retainers, in the Peninsular and Oriental Steamer, Lady Mary Wood, which sailed from Calcutta and reached Bombay on December 26, 1848.
In the meantime, Amir Ismail bin Ahmad of Kadmus, the local Ismaili leader in Syria, had been permitted by the Ottoman authorities to settle permanently with his people in an area east of the Orontes river.
These arrangements were evidently confirmed by a decree of Sultan Abdul Majid I (1255-1277/1839-1861), dated Shaban, 1265/July, 1849. Amir Ismail bin Muhammad chose the ruins of Salamia as the site of his new Ismaili settlement. In 1266/1850, the Ottomans granted a further favour to the Ismaili settlers and exempted them from military conscription and taxation.
An increasing number of Ismailis from the western mountains gradually joined the original settlers in Salamia, attracted by the prospect of receiving free land in a district where they would furthermore be neither taxed nor conscripted. By 1277/1861, it had become a large village.
On arriving in Bombay, the British made a fresh effort to win permission for his return to Iran, while the Agha Khan had also written a letter about it to the new Iranian king, Nasiruddin Shah’s chief minister, Amir Kabir, who proved less responsive than his predecessor, insisting that the Agha Khan would be arrested at the borders as a fugitive.
After the execution of Amir Kabir in 1268/1852, the Agha Khan made a final plea to return to his homeland, and sent Nasiruddin Shah an elephant and a giraffe as gifts. He also sent gifts to Amir Kabir’s successor, Mirza Aqha Khan Nuri, who was a personal friend of the Agha Khan.
Some of the Aga Khan’s family estates in Iran were then restored to the control of his relative, but the new minister was unable to arrange for his return. Meanwhile, the Bombay Government approached the Agha Khan to get a definite answer regarding his stay.
On September, 1850, the deputy Secretary in the Iranian Department at Bombay personally asked the Agha Khan, who stated that he was willing to stay in Bombay.
The members of the India Board also approved it on January 22, 1851. In April 17, 1851, the Bombay Government apprized the Agha Khan of the decision of the court directors. The Agha Khan on April 18, 1851 wrote a letter to Bombay Government, expressing his gratitude.
In India, the Aga Khan retained his close relation with the British empire. On a rare occasion, the Agha Khan was visited in his Bombay home, the Agha Hall, by the Duke of Edinburgh, the future king Edward VII (1901-1910), as Prince of Wales, during a state visit to India, and held a long talk with him.
The two sat in front of a portrait of Shah Fateh Ali, the emperor of Iran, whose daughter the Agha Khan had married. The Prince of Wales inspected the Agha Khan’s cups won on the Indian turf and his son’s trophies of the Indian chase, and talked over some of the events of a life as varied and adventurous as that of the Agha Khan’s ancestor, who seven centuries ago wrote to Leopold, Duke of Austria, urging the release of Richard Coeur de Lion, then a prisoner in the hands of Leopold at the time of the Crusades.
In sum, it was an honour which, with the exception of the leading ruling princes, was accorded to no other nobleman and was acknowledged of his princely birth and the admirable services he had rendered to the British government. Writing on the historic visit,
Sir Bartle Frere said, “There can be little doubt that the visit has been described and discussed in many a meeting of the Agha Khan’s followers in India, Persia and Arabia – on the remote shores of Eastern Africa, and in still more inaccessible valleys of Central Asia, and it will doubtless find a place in the annals of this singular sect for many centuries to come.”
The Agha Khan thus received government protection in British India as the spiritual head of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, which solidified his position and helped him in the exercise of his authority. During three decades of residency in Bombay, he exerted a great deal of direct control over the Ismaili community, and organised the community more progressive under the network of leaders and officers.
FAMINE IN AGHA KHANI AREAS OF KUTCH
Kutchh in the meantime, reported to have gripped in a dust bowl, followed by a terrible famine, and as a result, a retinue of ten thousand Ismailis tracked down in Sind. On the instructions of Governor General, Sir Charles Napier granted them permission to settle down at Mullah Khatiar (Matli), and most of the Ismailis also migrated to Karachi.
Bibi Tahira, commonly known as Sayeda Imam Begum was the last known member of the Kadiwal family during the period under review in India. She was born most probably on 1199/1785 in Kera, Kutchh. She made her first public appearance when Bibi Sarcar Mata Salamat (1744-1832) visited India in 1245/1829 and is reported to have joined her from Karachi to Jerruk and Bombay.
Sayeda Imam Begum at length chose to settle in Bombay in 1246/1830. She used to organise the gathering of the Ismaili women in the jamatkhanas to discuss on the ginans. She also visited Kutchh and Sind around 1253/1837 and resided at Karachi. She is also reported to have visited Bombay in 1257/1841 and had an audience of the Agha Khan I in 1261/1845.
It is recounted that she again came to Karachi in 1276/1860, where she died in 1282/1866. Sayeda Imam Begum was famous for her piety and learning and composed many ginans, and was the last among the ginan composers in India. For further detail, vide “Sayyida Bibi Imam Begum” (“Hidayat”, Karachi, July, 1989, pp. 16-21) by Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali.
SUNNI KHOJAS TAKE SHIA AGHA KHAN TO TASK IN COURT CASES CLAIMING ISMAILIS AS SUNNIS.
The vast majority of his Khoja Ismaili followers in India welcomed him warmly, but some dissident members, sensing their loss of prestige with the arrival of the Imam, wished to maintain control over communal properties. Because of this, Hasan Ali Shah decided to secure a pledge of loyalty from the members of the community to himself and to the Ismaili form of Islam. Although most of the members of the community signed a document issued by Hasan Ali Shah summarizing the practices of the Ismailis, a group of dissenting Khojas surprisingly asserted that the community had always been Sunni. This group was outcast by the unanimous vote of all the Khojas assembled in Bombay.
The Aga Khan I had to face periodical troubles from certain dissident members of his community. In 1243/1827, while the Agha Khan was in Iran, a group led by Habib Ibrahim khoja in Bombay refused to pay tithe and forced others to do so.
The leaders of the Bombay jamat made a report to the Aga Khan in Iran about it at the end of 1244/1828. The Aga Khan, in order to overcome this opposition, sent to Bombay as his agent, Mirza Abul Kassim, who was accompanied by the Aga Khan’s mother, Bibi Sarcar Mata Salamat (1744-1832) in 1245/1829.
In 1866, these dissenters Sunni khoja filed a suit in the Bombay High Court against Agha Khani -1 Hasan Ali Shah, claiming that the Khojas had been Sunni Muslims from the very beginning.
The case, commonly referred to as the Aga Khan Case, was heard by Sir Joseph Arnould. The hearing lasted several weeks, and included testimony from Hasan Ali Shah himself. After reviewing the history of the community, Justice Arnould gave a definitive and detailed judgement against the plaintiffs and in favour of Hasan Ali Shah and other defendants.
it was in the course of these proceedings that Mirza Abul Kassim filed a suit on behalf of the Aga Khan against the dissidents in Bombay High Court. The suit, however, was not processed and withdrawn on July 22, 1830. The recusants were summoned in the jamatkhana, which proved no responsive, and as such, Habib Ibrahim and eleven other persons had been outcast from the community in 1246/1830, who were then known as Bar Bhai (twelve brethren). After five years, in 1251/1835, they were re-admitted conditionally, who had however laid a root of a dissident group.
The judgement was significant in that it legally established the status of the Khojas as a community referred to as Shia Imami Ismailis, and of Hasan Ali Shah as the spiritual head of that community. Hasan Ali Shah’s authority thereafter was not seriously challenged again.[1]
The Agha Khan arrived in Bombay on December 16, 1845. He had to leave Bombay for Calcutta, and returned to Bombay on December 26, 1848. Consequently, the Aga Khan’s absence for 18 months emboldened the dissident gang to engineer propaganda against him. When the Aga Khan was yet in Calcutta,
a fresh litigatiion, known as Sajan Mehr Ali Case was carried in 1263/1847, in which the question of the rights of female inheritance among the Ismailis was brought before the Supreme Court of Bombay.
Sir Erskine Perry (1821-1893), the Chief Justice presided over the Khoja Inheritance Case of a certain Hirbai and Sonabai. In this case, the Aga Khan was represented by his brother, Muhammad Bakir Khan (d. 1296/1879), who endeavoured to uphold the rule of inheritance according to the Holy Koran.
The dissident group, Bar Bhai was active in supporting the argument of the defendant. This case led to fresh feuds among the community. The Bar Bhai group began to broadcast aggressive propaganda against the Aga Khan, and in view of their unwillingness to acknowledge the Aga Khan’s spiritual authority, they had been ex-communicated in 1264/1848.
Henceforward, the basic issue of the tithe originated in 1243/1827 became submerged by the petty quibbles. The other issues challenged the Aga Khan’s authority, and claimed themselves as the Sunni Khojas, stressing that the Ismaili Khojas had been Sunnis since their conversion to Islam by Pir Sadruddin. They also built their own separate prayer-hall and grave-yard in 1266/1850.
On November 13, 1850, a tragic event arose between the Ismailis and the Sunni Khojas in the prayer-hall in Bombay. On the last day of the commemoration of Muharram, four Sunni Khojas were killed, 19 of the Ismailis were tried in the criminal court and four were hanged on December 18, 1850.
On October 20, 1861, when the dissenting Khojas publicly joined the Sunni fold, the Aga Khan issued a decree in which he expressed his desire to bring the Ismailis to conform to the practices of the Shia Imami Ismaili creed of his holy ancestors, regarding marriage ceremonies, ablutions, funeral rites etc.
The decree ended thus, “He who may be willing to obey my orders shall write his name in this book that I may know him.” Copies of the decree were kept at the house of the Aga Khan’s son in Bombay for signatures and were circulated in Sind, Kathiawar, Kutchh and Zanzibar. Except for a handful persons in Bombay and Kathiawar, an almost unanimous acceptance was received from the Ismailis.
The loyalty of the Ismailis for their Imam can be gauged from the reaction of the Bhuj jamat at Kutchh, who sent a letter dated January 2, 1862 in reply to the communication sent by the plaintiffs as illustrated by E.I. Howard to the Hon’ble Court. It reads: “We are upon the right side, but should His Lordship Agha Khan-1 ask for the signatures, we are ready to give thousand times a day.
Whatever order comes from him, we are bound to obey.” Observing the above letter, Justice Sir Joseph Arnold (1814-1886) remarked: “This is a very decided letter; at any rate, there can be no mistake about that.” (cf. “The Shia School of Islam and its Branches”, Bombay, 1906, p. 93).
In the meantime, Mukhi Alarakhia Sumar and Kamadia Khaki Padamsi (d.1877) called a meeting in Bombay Jamatkhana on August 16, 1862. Habib Ibrahim and his son Ahmad Ibrahim and few others were also summoned, but none of them attended the meeting. Thus, a notice of 21 days was served to them, effective from August 23, 1862 but of no avail. At length, they all had been expelled from the Khoja Ismaili community for ever.
The seceders formed a group, called The Reformers’ Society, who refused to acknowledge the Agha Khan as their religious head and tried to withhold from his properties dedicated to him by his followers, and finally filed a suit in April, 1866 against the Aga Khan in the Bombay High Court.
This case, generally known as The Aga Khan Case or The Khoja Case was heard by Sir Joseph Arnold (1814-1886). The Plaintiff of the case were Daya Mahomad, Mahomad Saya, Peer Mahomad Kassim and Fazal Ghulam Hussain with H.M’s Advocate General as nominal complainant.
The Defendants were the Aga Khan I, Mukhi Alarakhia Sumar, Kamadia Khaki Padamsi, Mahomad Peer Bhai, Nur Mahomad Rajpal, Ali Bhai Jan, Habib Ibrahim, Muraj Premji, Dharamsi Punja, Aasu Gangji, Dossa Ladak, Nanji Alloo and Mahomad Yousuf Murgay, Qadi of the Mahomadans of the Town and island of Bombay.
The court’s proceedings lasted for 25 days after which the Judge settled down to examine and study the mountain of evidences and seek enlightenment in history. Sir Joseph Arnold had indeed a hard task sifting the evidence, separating facts from a lot of legal chaff. On November 21, 1866, Justice Arnold rendered a detailed verdict against the plaintiffs.
The result was a lengthy and well argued judgment which decided, once for all, that the Khoja community “is a sect of people whose ancestors were Hindu in original, which was converted to, and has throughout abided in, the faith of the Shia Imami Ismailis, which has always been and still is bound by ties of spiritual allegiance to the hereditary Imams of Ismailis.” This judgement unequivocally confirmed the Aga Khan as the spiritual head of the Khoja Ismaili community and legally established the Islamic root and identity of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.
12 BARA BHAIS AND PANJE BHAI,S
During the Aga Khan case at Bombay, some eminent Ismailis had rendered valuable services to the community in all affairs, the most prominent among them were Ismail Kherraj, Sharif Gangji, Mukhi Alarakhia Sumar, Kamadia Khaki Padamsi etc.The Aga Khan I recognised them as Ismaili fidais and Ismaili soldiers.
They were known as the Panje Bhai (one who shakes hand) to distinguish them from the Bara Bhai (twelve brethren) and originated the tradition of Panje Bhai Club in the community.
The Aga Khan I seems to have left behind his memoirs in Persian, entitled “Ibrat-i Afza”, relating to the events of the youth and his encounters with the Qajarid regime in Iran, also covering his migration to Afghanistan and then to India down to the period of 12th Safar, 1262/January 29, 1846. According to W.Ivanow (1886-1970),
it was actually written on behalf of the Aga Khan I by Mirza Ahmad Wiqar Shirazi (1820-1881), the son of the famous poet Visal (d. 1262/1846), who stayed briefly with the Aga Khan in Bombay in 1266/1850. It was lithographed in Bombay in 1278/1862, and reprinted with the numerous typographical errors by Bawa Nazar Ali Karimdad, who got its translation into Urdu, and made its Gujrati translation in 1281/1865.
The unedited Persian text was published by Hussain Kuhi Kirmani at Tehran on 1325/1946, and was also published in “Aga Khan Mahallati wa firqa’i Ismailia”by M. Sa’i in Tehran in 1329/1950. Hence, the originality of the book seems to have been completely lost due to the alterations made by the partisans of Nimatullahi order, and the accessible printed copies attributed of being a genuine work of the Aga Khan I is the remotest.
The fact that the Aga Khan I had a large following outside India was brought to light by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth (1827-1886) in “Report on a Mission to Yarkand, Calcutta, 1875”, who in the time of Lord Richard Southwell Bourke Mayo (1822-1872), had led a deputation from Lahore to Yarkand in 1869, and he was also sent to the mission of Kashgar in 1873.
The members of Sir Douglas Forsyth’s mission ascertained that these Ismailis formed the whole of the sparse population in many of the valleys leading down from the Pamir, the elevated “roof of the world”, on the banks of the higher Oxus, and its affuents – in Chitral, Gilgit, and in remote valleys between Kafristan and Badakhshan.
AGHA KHAN FAMILY AND HOUSE AND DEATH
The Aga Khan I spent his final years peacefully in Bombay, with seasonal stay in Poona, and sometime in Banglore. While on visits to Banglore, he had formed a friendship with the then ruler of Travancore, and subsequently represented that important state in Bombay. He used to visit the Indian communities all over India.
He invariably attended the Jamatkhana every morning at Bombay and lectured on the moral and religious precepts they should follow. He used to recite some passages of the Holy Koran in Arabic and then explain them in Persian. Next to him would stand a man who understood Persian but also knew Sindhi, who would translate the Imam’s words into Sindhi.
With a taste for oriental splendor, he established an imposing residence on Malabar Hill overlooking the sea and installed his family in equally sumptuous houses around him. The affairs of the community were conducted from Agha Hall, a magnificent palace with separate library and staff quarters, set in fine parkland and enclosed by a high wall.
Apart from his three wives, four sons and six daughters, the Agha Khan I also looked after a thousand or more relatives and retainers who had come with him from Iran.
His elder son was Aqa Ali Shah, who succeeded him. The second son was Aga Jhangi Shah (d. 1314/1896), whose sons were Zayn al-Abidin Shah, Shamsuddin Shah and Shah Abbas; and Haji Bibi and Shahzadi Begum were his daughters. The third son of the Aga Khan I was Aga Jalal Shah (d. 1288/1871), who had two sons, viz. Muchul Shah and Kuchuk Shah, and two daughters, Shah Bibi and Malek Taj Begum. Akbar Shah (d. 1322/1905) was the fourth son, whose two sons were Shah Rukh Shah and Furukh Shah.
The Agha Khan I died in the night of April 12, 1881. He was buried at Hasanabad on Mount Road, Mazagon, on the site of the Eden Hall, where a splendid mausoleum was built at the cost of rupees three lacs.
His funeral was attended by thousands of the Indians and Europeans, and all the communities, including the Consuls for Iran and Turkey and high officials of the government. The Aga Khan I was succeeded by his son, Aqa Ali Shah, the Agha Khan II.
His wife Sarv-i Jahan Begum, the daughter of Shah Fateh Ali also died in the following year at Bombay.
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