Unique Background Corroboration
This book is fairly short, and a bit … different. The author, who allegedly lived from the near-to-middle part of the 1900s to the early part of the early 20th Century, was Muslim and claimed to be the Promised Messiah. In fact, according to the publisher of this book, “’Jesus in India’ is the English version of Masih Hindustan Mein, an Urdu treatise written by the Holy Founder of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi.”
I am in no position to either validate nor refute that claim. Yet, to my knowledge, since he isn’t here to defend his contention nor, in all likelihood, have those who aren’t Muslim heard him before now (notwithstanding that his words in this book appear to have been published numerous times since 1908 with the last time being in 2018), I would say that while he may have, indeed, been the Islamic Promised Messiah, he is not here to support that claim and the knowledge of this has not been spread ‘throughout Christendom,’ nor the rest of the world...until now. To my knowledge.
However, what I can say in relation to the information found in this/his book is that it appears to be legitimate if not accurate. Still, he is extremely verbose regarding what I, personally, believe to be tangential data and what APPEARS to be seemingly related information to the subject of this book, yet which is actually unrelated. Or, at least to me it seems so. Therefore, he does not fully address the subject of ‘Jesus in India’ until chapter 4, “The Evidence Found in Historical Records.”
Still, Ahmad DOES make quite a few salient points regarding various aspects of Jesus’s life and ministry and most importantly, his resurrection, in the first three chapters, it is the rest of the book, beginning with Chapter 4 and ending with the 22 appendices which provide the documented evidence that Jesus was still very much alive after the crucifixion (after he came out of his coma), as well as referencing documented notations from numerous individuals regarding his journey out of Israel through India and Afghanistan, primarily.
As far as why the author wrote this book, he says that it is because “...the ultimate object underlying Jesus’ long journey to India was that he might discharge the duty of preaching to all the Israelite tribes…” which certainly seems more than plausible to me, since as most of us who have studied the life of Jesus are aware, he stated that he had a message he needed to deliver to the lost ones of Israel. And well before Jesus made his appearance on the scene in Israel, the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were often a major topic. Why?
The bottom line is, there’s just far too much proof that Jesus – actually, Yeshua ben Yosef – was a very real individual as was his uncle, Joseph of Arimathea; that he DID do much of what has been claimed he did (except for actually dying on the cross), and whether various individuals wish to believe this or not, there also seems to be quite a bit of evidence that indicates that he was not only married to Mary Magdalene, but that they had children. In fact, there is a bloodline that is traceable from various towns and cities in Israel and up through France and Great Britain, specifically Wales and England, but even to many other areas in Egypt, India and elsewhere.
Lots of unique background corroboration.