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are the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. The same is true of the people of Kashmir, whose descent can be traced back to the tribes of Israel as has been mentioned in some of the quotations reproduced above. The Kashmiris also claim to be. Bani Israel (that is, Children of Israel) and call themselves Kashar which is a Hebrew word meaning right. But let us probe further into this claim and examine what historical and other evidence is available to substantiate it. . The first three early historians of Kashmir, namely Mulla. Nadiri (1378-1416) in his book Tarikh Kashmir (History of. Kashmire), Mulla Ahmad in his book Waqaya-i-Kashmir (Events of Kashmir), and Abdul Qadar Bin Qazi-ul-Quzat Wasil Ali Khan in his book Hashmat-i-Kashmir, have all categorically stated that the inhabitants of Kashmir were the descendants of Israel. The last mentioned author adding that they had come from the Holy. Land. . Apart from these three Muslim historians of Kashmir,. Hindu scholars like Pandit Narain Kaul in his book Guldasta-iKashmir and Pandit Ram Chand Kak in his work Ancient Monument of Kashmir describe Kashmiris as being of Jewish countenance and descent. . Pandit Jawaher Lal Nehru, ex-Prime Minister of India and an eminent scholar of history in his book Glimpses of World. History writes: All over Central Asia, in Kashmir and Laddakh and Tibet and even farther North, there is still a strong belief that. Jesus or Isa travelled about there. . Francis Bernier (a courtier at the Court of Emperor Aurang. Zeb) states that the inhabitants of Kashmir struck him as resembling Jews, having the countenances and manners of the. Israeli people. . S. Manoutchi, a physician in the service of Emperor Aurang. Zeb, corroborates Francis Bernier and states: although we find no remains in Kashmir of the Jewish religion, there are several vestiges of a race descended from the Israelites. . George Foster in his famous work Letters on a Journey from Bengal to England, 1973, writes:. On first seeing the Kashmirians in their own country,. I imagined from their garb, the cast of their countenances, which were long and of a grave aspect, and the forms of their beards, that I had come among a nation of Jews. . The Rev. Claudius Buchanan talks about the discovery of 60