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16 Ashgabat Artyk Mashhad IRAN/PERSIA U. S. S. R. FIRST GRAIN OF SAND • Bukhara Tashkent KINGDOM OF AFGHANISTAN • Islamabad Lahore Qadian Amritsar Quetta Multan Duzdab (Zahedan) Karachi ARABIAN SEA (INDIAN OCEAN) New Delhi BRITISH INDIA Agra The most likely route taken by Maulawi Zahoor Hussain on his 1924 journey from Qadian, India, to the Soviet Union based on historical records of railway networks available in 1924 One month after his departure for Bukhara, I received a letter from Maulawi Mohammad Amin Khan stating that he had safely reached Bukhara and that it was not possible for him to come back to Mashhad, especially with the snow and cold temperatures. He wrote that if I had sufficiently recovered from my illness and was now able to undertake the remainder of the arduous journey to Bukhara, I should write him; he can then reply with a descrip- tion of the route he took so that I can follow suit. I received this letter in Mashhad on 2 December 1924, which