Jesus In India — Page 144
134 JESUS IN INDIA he concedes that when he was among the Kashmiris he thought he was living amidst a Jewish people. ¹ Under the word 'Cashmere, on page 250 of A. K. Johnston's Dictionary of Geography, there is this statement: The natives are of a tall robust frame of body, with manly features the women full-formed and handsome, with aquiline nose and features, resembling the Jewish. ² The Civil & Military Gazette (23 November 1898, p. 4) under the heading Sawati and Afridi (peoples), reproduces a very val- uable and interesting paper presented to the Anthropological section of the British Association at one of its recent meetings, which will be read at its winter session before the Committee on Anthropological Research. The Gazette says: The original Pathan or Paktan inhabitants of these west- ern gates of India are recognised in very early history, many of the tribes being mentioned by Herodotus and the historians of Alexander. In mediaeval times, the rough uncultivated wilderness of mountains they held, was called Roh, and its inhabitants Rohillas, and there can be little doubt that most of these early Rohilla or Pathan tribes were in their places long before the overlying Afghan tribes were thought of. All Afghans whatsoever 1. See Appendix, extract 21. [Publisher] 2. See Appendix, extract 22. [Publisher]