Life of Ahmad — Page 674
JESUS as IN INDIA as 674 included Kabul and probably touched the Ganges in India. The fact that the Afghans and Kashmiris are Israelites is not only proved by their own claim but is also indicated by the following quotations apart from eminent authorities quoted in the body of Ahmad’s as book Jesus in India. The Encyclopaedia Britannica , Ed: 1910, Vol. I, p. 315 says: 'But the Hebrew ancestry of the Afghans is more worthy at least of consideration, for a respectable number of intelligent officers, well acquainted with the Afghans, have been strong in their belief of it; and though the customs alleged in proof will not bear the stress laid on them, undoubtedly a prevailing type of the Afghan physiognomy has a character strongly Jewish. This characteristic is certainly a remarkable one; but it is shared, to a considerable extent, by the Kashmiris (a circumstance which led Bernier to speculate on the Kashmiris representing the ten lost tribes of Israel), and, we believe, by the Tajik people of the Badakshan. ' Under the word 'Afghan' the Encyclopaedia of Islam says: 'Noses are generally long and often curved and this is perhaps the origin of the idea which some have entertained that the Afghans are of Hebrew origin. Ujfalvy has noted that this peculiarity is very marked in the portraits of the