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P.S. tombs etc, jesus being there yada yada, its all balogna >_> I'm actually from Srinagar where the tombs are, I dont think I know anyone who actually believes in that stuff, the ones that do, only do so for the tourist/commercial value of it.
Yuuki its aint yada yada if u from Kashmir u might know those kashmiri historians
**Inhabitants of the Trans-Euphrates Provinces - Kashmiris
**It will, therefore, be acknowledged that ethnical and historical evidence, both ancient and modern, establishes that Afghans 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 Kashmir), Mulla Ahmad in his book "Waqqya-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 Narian Kaul in his book "Guldasta-i-Kashmir" and Pandit Ram Chand Kak in his work "Ancient Monument of Kashmir" describe Kashmiris as being of Jewish countenance of 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 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 an ancient manuscript of Moses in Hebrew which was written on a roll of leather 48 feet in length and about which he was told it was brought from Kashmir.
The Kashmiri pundits claim that they had come from Persia and beyond and that some of their people had settled on the Malaber Coast. Mr. Henry Wilson in his book "Travels in Himalayan Provinces" writes: "... the physical and the ethnical character, which so sharply marks off the Kashmiris from all surrounding races, has always struck observing visitors to the valley and they have universally connected them with the Jews."
Major H. W. Bellew in his book "Kashmir in Kashgar" refers to the dress of Kashmiri men and women and their features and infers from these and other facts their descent from the Jews.
Similarly, Mr. Cowley Lambert in his book "A Trip to Kashmir and Laddakh" refers to the physical appearance of the Kashmiris and concludes that they have a most unmistakable Jewish cast of face.
Similarly, Mr. James Milne in his book "The Road to Kashmir" states that the three races (Afghans, Afridis, and Kashmiris) have large aquiline features and skins which have been well described as subdued Jews.
More recently, Sir Francis Younghusband, who for many years was the British Representative in Kashmir, writes:
Here may be seen fine old patriarchal types, just as we picture to ourselves the Israelitish heroes of old. Some, indeed, say... that these Kashmiris are the lost tribes of Israel and certainly as I have already said, there are real biblical types to be seen everywhere in Kashmir and especially among the upland villages. Here the Israelitish shepherd tending his flocks and herds may any day be seen.
We also find a Christian missionary who lived in Kashmir for many years (C. E. Tyndale Biscoe) who contends: ... "the Kashmiris belong to the lost tribes of Israel as many of them have such Jewish noses, also their love of money and of getting the better of their neighbors is a strong one."
Mr. John Noel in an article in Asia Magazine in 1930 under the title "The Heavenly High Snow Peaks of Kashmir" writes about Kashmiris as follows:
They seem more perfectly Jewish than the purest Jews you have ever seen; not because they wear a flowing cloak-like dress that conforms to your idea of biblical garment, but because their faces have the Jewish cast of features. The curious coincidence - or is it a coincidence? - is that there is a strong tradition in Kashmir or its connection with the Jews. A recent Indian writer, Mr. V. Rangacharya, in his "History of Pre-Moslem India" describes the inhabitants of Kashmir to the North West Frontier of Kashmir to be very Jewish.
Here then, we have an overwhelming accumulation of historical evidence emanating from a large number of independent and objective scholars, from different countries, belonging to different religions, all asserting the close connection of the Kashmiris to their Israeli descent. The evidence is visible in ethnic features, which no one can concoct or fabricate, in the dress which they wear, in names of persons which they carry, in names of places where they live - indeed, an all permeating reflection of their origin and past. When this large volume of evidence is seen in the context of what the Holy Quran and the Scriptures contain on the subject; is left with the conclusion that the lost tribes of Israel did settle primarily in the area now known as Afghanistan and Kashmir and some parts of India, like Bombay and Malabar Coast.
you guys problem is not reserach the thing even dont read **
**read all my above post, if not in a one day make parts of it .
in this post I just paste again the reason of Yasu Massiah to travel in this area to found his lost tribes...........