Letter from Abdur Razzaq to the General Secretary's Office, 19 April 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Abdur Razzaq

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A letter from Abdur Razzaq to the General Secretary's Office. The letter regards a resolution passed in a meeting of Indian students in Dublin on 17 April 1916 requesting that an enclosure is passed on to Lord Wimborne, Ivor Guest (1873-1939), the lord lieutenant of Ireland. The enclosure itself is a copy of a resolution made at the meeting to extend gratitude to Wimborne for his sympathy with the students, who were targeted in the 'Eye Opener' newspaper, which referred to them as the 'black peril.'Abdur Razzaq was an Indian student studying Law at the King's Inns in Dublin.

 National Archives of Ireland Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers, CSO RP/1916/5612/9070 https://letters1916.ie/item/182 English Abdur Razzaq 1916-04-19 Male Country and City Life Politics

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 KINGS INNS, DUBLIN 19, April 16 Dear Sir, I have the honour to forward herewith a copy of the resolution passed in a public meeting of the Indian Students, with the request that you will very kindly lay it before H. E. The Lord Leiutenant. Thanking you in anticipation I am Yours truly Abdur Razzaq. President of the meeting Received from P.S. Vice Regal Lodge. Put with papers MN 21/4 H. W. 3.4.17 'Copy of the Resolution' 'We the Indian students resident in Dublin, assembled in this public meeting, held at the College Hotel on the 17 th of April 1916, beg to place on record our heartfelt gratitude to H. E. the Lord Leiutenant of Ireland for his so kindly expressing his sympathy with the Indian students and for the action he has so graciously taken in warning the owners, Publishers & printers of the Eye — Opener and thus pro— tecting the Indians from the scurrilous attacks.' Proposed by Mr. B. Agusti Seconded by Mr. J. N. Mahon Abdur Razzaq Letter from Abdur Razzaq to the General Secretary's Office, 19 April 1916