INDIA: Mahatma, Pandit & Khan

The myriad eyes of teeming, docile Indians turned in mild approval and amaze, last week, upon Mother India's three greatest and most potent sons:

Mahatma Gandhi

The Aga Khan

Pandit Motilal Nehru

The famed, ascetic Mahatma is the Saint of India's Hindus; and the Pandit is now their Sword. The great Aga Khan is neither Saint nor Sword, but a very rich, fat and astute descendant of Prophet Mohammed, and therefore the most influential of Indian Mohammedans. Last week the Aga Khan traveled from his sumptuous home in Bombay (western India) to Delhi...

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