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"Jesus in India"
The title of his famous treatise in Urdu. Read the full text online.
Background
Ghulam Ahmad was born in the year 1835 in a small town called Qadian, in India.
In 1884 he published a massive work entitled, Baraheen Ahmadiyya [Urdu] in which he presented what he considered to be 300 proofs of the superiority of Islam over all other religions.

Then in the year 1890, Ghulam Ahmad shocked not only his Christian and Hindu enemies, but his Muslim brethren as well. For he made the awesome claim that God had appointed him the Masih (Messiah) and the long- awaited Imam Mahdi whom Muhammad had predicted would bring about the final rule of Islam

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad - Introduction
As far as we are aware, he was the first person who developed, in his Urdu book, Masih Hindustein Mein (translated into English as Jesus in India) a unified and coherent theory regarding a possible post-crucifixion life of Jesus Christ. The reader should know that Ghulam Ahmad’s entire book is on the Internet. Ghulam Ahmad’s work is always cited as original source material in books that deal with this issue (see Kersten, Kaiser, Hassnain, Nazir Ahmad, etc.)

Though people like Karl Bahrdt, Karl Venturi, and Heinrich Paulus had, prior to Ahmad, advanced the theory that Jesus Christ may have survived the crucifixion, Ghulam Ahmad might be called the “father” of this theory.

Ahmad offered theories pertaining to the events surrounding the crucifixion, as well as Jesus’ post-crucifixion life. He even included a map that showed Jesus’ possible route from the Holy Land to Kashmir. He did a massive amount of research, even discovering mention of the very ointment, Marham- i-Isa (mentioned in at least 32 ancient books of medicine that he lists, including the famous Qanun, by Shaikh-ul-Rais Bu Ali Sina), which, as is claimed in those works, was used to heal Jesus’ wounds

Introduction | The Discovery | Review of Religions

Opposition
There presently exists entire orthodox Islamic societies that are dedicated to destroying the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, as well as refuting the claims of its founder.

Jesus Survived the Cross
Ahmad said that in the language of dreams if dead are seen rising out of their grave and returning home it means that a prisoner will be freed. Ahmad said this explains Matthew 27:52