![]() ![]() I was also fortunate to be a member of the Hasanabad Boys Scouts Orchestra and played harmonium. Our hearts were leaping with joy on such days, but we were also mindful to see the camps were clean, the visitors fed and looked after. To ensure all were happy and that visitors were being cared for, Mata Salamat Begum Om Habibah and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan would arrive unannounced and join the helpers, as well as participate in the Rasda performance by all whenever they wished. During the days preceding the main event there were jubilant programmes everywhere. There were camps in many other Jamatkhana grounds too. I was a member of the Hasanabad Boys Scouts who were given regular duties to care for the visitors in camps in the grounds of Hasanabad and Aga Hall. There were murids arriving from many places in the country and from abroad. ![]() ![]() The proper day of the weighing of our Imam in diamonds was 10th March, 1946 at Brabourne Stadium. I was a teenager and eager to be involved in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary or the Diamond Jubilee of the Imamat of our beloved 48th Imam, Hazrat Imam Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah Aga Khan III in Mumbai. March 1946 was the most momentous and happy month in my childhood in Bombay (now Mumbai). ![]() Memories of the Diamond Jubilee of Imam Sultan Mohamed Shah This vintage engraving depicts the portrait of Aga Khan I (1804 – 1881), the 46th Ismaili Imam who is buried at Hasanabad. The engraving was made by an unknown artist after a photograph circa 1870. ![]()
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