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From Afghanistan Jesus passed on to India and eventually settled down in Kashmir. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the late Prime Minister of India, himself a Kashmiri Brahmin and an ardent lover of Kashmir, has said: 'All over Central Asia, in Kashmir, and Ladakh, and Tibet, and even farther north, there is still a strong belief that Jesus, or Isa, travelled about there. . . . There is nothing inherently improbable in his having done SO. 10 16 This is borne out by several factors. The original inhabitants of the Kashmir valley strike every one who visits Kashmir as having undoubted Jewish features. Many of their personal and several of their place names appear to have a Jewish origin. A personal name more often than not ends with Ju. One of the high mountainous but comparatively barren provinces of Kashmir is called Gilgit which is reminiscent of Golgotha in Matt. 27:33. Hims, a town near Ladakh, is a reminder of Hamath in Numbers 13:21. Ladakh itself is recognisable as Laadah in 1Chr. 4:21. The possibility of Jesus having visited Tibet is indicated by Tibbath in 1Chr 18:8, and Leh is almost identical with Leni in Judges 15:9. On entering the Kingdom after crossing the Pir Penjale mountains the inhabitants in the frontier villages 16 Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru, 2nd Ed. , Bombay, 1962 141