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RACIAL ORIGINS OF PEOPLE IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AND AFGHANISTAN

CHAPTER 4

RACIAL AND ETHNIC ORIGINS OF PEOPLE IN INDIA

To get an understanding of the racial origins of Indians, let’s read Genesis 10:6-8 again: “6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush begot Nimrod [the Bible does not call him son as he was born of an illegitimate relationship with Semiramis]; he began to be a mighty one on the earth…”

Descendants of Mizraim populated Egypt. Descendants of Put settled in Libya and Canaanites were the descendants of Canaan who settled in what is the land of Israel today. Cush means Ethiopia, which means black. Descendants of Cush settled in Ethiopia.

One part of Cush’s descendants went to Ethiopia. They had African looks and curly hair whereas the other part with dark, Indian looks and straight hair ultimately settled in India. These would be descendants of Raamah, the Indian Rama. There are many ways they can be identified as descendants of Cush. The reason they separated is that they received different languages when the language of mankind was confused at the destruction of the Tower of Babel.

The name Cush (or Kush, and if vowels are interchanged in pronunciation and writing in different languages, as it can happen over thousands of years, it can be written as Kash, or Kish, and even r can be added in between such as krish for a similar sound) appears in the Hindu Kush mountains and Kash-mir, which indicates their migration route to India. "A few other tell-tale signs of the movement eastwards of the sons of Cush include a land called Kushian, in modern Pakistan. Just to the north of India also lay the land Kashgana. And in the south of India ran a river called Kishna. All of these names are variously derivatives of 'Cush'" (Craig White, In Search of...The Origin of Nations, 2003, pp. 189-190, Quoted in United Church of God Bible Commentary at www.ucg.org)

For further proof, the Indian warriors were known as Kassites in history, which is simply a variation of the name Cushites or Kushites. They derive their name from their ancestor Cush or Kush. The name Kshatriya is derived from the name Kushite.

Only two people have maintained a caste system: Indians and to some extent Egyptians. Indians have the most virulent or strict form of the caste system and credit its creation to Manu. Manu is thought to have survived the Flood and is believed to be Noah. But Noah being a servant of God could not have created an evil system such as the caste system of India. There is no evidence anywhere in history about Noah having imposed such a system on his descendants.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna claims that he was Manu in one of his reincarnations. There is nothing in secular history to support that claim. Krishna has made other tall claims in the Gita, by attributing the deeds of others, including God, to himself using reincarnation as a device.

Cush is listed as the first ruler in Egypt’s first Dynasty under the name Meni or Mena or Menes in Greek. The name means “The Establisher”. He is the real Manu (with vowels changed in his Egyptian names Meni or Mena) of the Indian tradition, the establisher of man’s civilization in Shinar. He was the overall leader of the rebels. To manage various building projects, agricultural production and govern the people in an orderly manner he assigned duties to various peoples and required them to strictly stay within the bounds of their duties. His own descendants were the most dutiful in this regard. Requiring people to strictly stay within the bounds of the assigned duties calcified into India’s rigid caste system.

India’s caste system is proof that a second branch of Cush’s descendants finally settled in India. This branch was dark in color (not necessarily completely black) with straight hair. Because Cush’s father Ham was white while his mother was Negro black, Cush’s descendants could range in color from completely black to brown and shades in between. Thus, we see that the second branch of Cush migrated to India.

BIBLICAL IDENTITY OF INDIAN PEOPLE

The original people who migrated to India were among the rebels in the land of Shinar. When Semiramis was propagating her Babylonian Mystery religion from Babylon and committing fornication with the kings of the earth after having developed the temple prostitute system, the kings (actually patriarchs) of the tribes that eventually settled in India were among them. They learnt her religion and propagated it among their descendants. She was after all their ancestor Cush’s illegal wife. Semiramis’s temple prostitute system was the origin of the devadasi (which literally means “Servant of God) system practiced in South India. The multitude of gods of the Indian pantheon, similar to the gods of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman pantheons are also proof that Semiramis’s Babylonian Mystery religion is the common root of Indian religions with innovations added later by the priests over centuries and millennia.

Major settlers in India are the descendants of Cush as noted by many ancient historians. We have already quoted from Craig White’s book “In Search of...The Origin of Nations.”

Nineteenth-century author George Faber also wrote about the identity of the people of India: "Their military nobility is acknowledged to be of the same family as the Sacas or Chasas, who maintain that their great common ancestor was Cusha or Cush...But we read in a special manner of two lands of Cush, the Asiatic and the African. These were by the Greeks called the two Ethiopias...but by the Hindoos [Hindus], as by the sacred writers, they are denominated the land of Cush within and the land of Cush without" (The Origin of Pagan Idolatry, 1816, quoted. by Craig White, p. 99).

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote: “The Ethiopians from the sun-rise...were marshalled with the Indians and did not at all differ from [them] in appearance but only in their language, and their hair. For the eastern Ethiopians are straight-haired; but those of (Africa) have hair more curly than that of any other people. These Ethiopians from Asia were accounted (almost the same as the Indians [of India]) (Polymnia, Section 20).

In “Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization,” author Martin Bernal wrote: "The tradition of two Ethiopias is much older than [the 5th-century-B.C. Greek historian] Herodotus. In the Odyssey [of the Greek writer Homer], the Ethiopians are described as dwelling 'sundered in twain, the farthermost of men, some, where Hyperion [the sun] sets and some where he rises.' Thus, there were Black men, Aithiopes...from Western Libya (Africa) to Eastern Mesopotamia" (quoted. by Craig White, pp. 100-101).

Thus, ancient historians note that there are two branches of Cushites, the western branch in Ethiopia with curly hair, and the eastern branch in India with straight hair.

Biblical Identity of Krishna and Rama

Now let’s identify Krishna and Rama in the bible.

The goddess and warrior Kali Maa (which means “Black Mother”) or goddess Durga is the mother of all black people. That’s why she is named Kali Maa or black mother. Before the Flood the Negro woman Naamah fought in battles with her family and is credited with having slain giants with spears and javelins in a war with them. Those are the traits of Durga and Kali Maa. Therefore, we can identify the goddess Kali Maa or Durga as Naamah. Cush was her firstborn son.

The Bible lists the sons of Cush in Genesis 10:7-8: “And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod.”

Did you notice that one of the sons of Cush is named Raamah. This very Raamah was the one with straight hair who migrated to India. He is the Indian Rama of the Ramayana. He was an older half-brother of Nimrod by about 20 – 25 years.

The Indian Rama could not have existed before the Flood. If he had, he would have been deified as a god with the other gods. Instead, he is considered an ‘avtar’, or reincarnation of Vishnu. This means that according to biblical history and the history of myths he existed after the Flood, and in very early post-Flood history. Thus, Rama of Indian tradition did not exist millions of years ago but walked the earth only between 3,850 – 4,275 years ago (living a total of about 425 years). The Rama tradition in India thus is further proof that most Indians are descendants of Cush.

Now let us identify who Krishna was. Krishna was dark in color. So was Rama for that matter, being the son of Cush. The Ram Lalla (Child Rama) idol recently installed in the Ram Janambhoomi Temple (Ram Birthplace Temple) in Ayodhya in India is based on Rama’s description by Tulsidas, the writer of a Ramayana, and is depicted as black in color. That description is correct according to the bible account also.

The name Krishna can be identified with Cush as the sound is so similar to Kish. But Krishna is not Cush, as other clues clearly point to him being Nimrod the son of Cush. One clue that Krishna is not Cush is that Cush was driven out of Babylon and went to Ethiopia. After that his descendants with the straight hair like the Indians had no contact with him at all. But they had regular contact with Nimrod for 28 years in and around Babylon, till Nimrod was also driven out of Babylon and went to Egypt. However, Nimrod still worked to maintain his rule over other peoples except the Babylonians. The reason is that they still had not moved too far away from Babylon at this early point in history after the Flood. Nimrod traveled far and wide, even as far as Spain and Italy. He thus maintained contact with Indians, including Rama for another 28 years till he was finally slain by Shem.

After Nimrod’s execution, Rama and his descendants had close contact with Semiramis for another 160 years and the religion she had started in which Nimrod had the most prominent place as a god. The reason is that they had not yet moved away from Babylon. The priests, the descendants of Arphaxad who came to be known as Brahmins learnt that religion well and later continued to make further innovations on their own through the centuries. That’s how Nimrod’s human sacrifices changed to Sati, and infant sacrifices found their way into Indian religions.

Krishna is associated with cow and calf worship. Consider how Nimrod was worshipped in the Babylonian Mystery religion of his mother Semiramis. One of the symbols for worship of Nimrod was the calf. A pair of bulls was also a symbol for worship of Nimrod in Egypt. He was worshipped as a bull in Assyria and Babylon. So, what would naturally be the symbol for the worship of Nimrod's mother? The cow, of course! So, cow and calf worship of India is nothing else but the worship of Nimrod and his mother Semiramis, which is also the origin of the Mother and Child worship of the Babylonian Mysteries. Thus, Krishna of Indian tradition is none other than Nimrod.

Krishna is also described as a seducer of girls, or womanizer. In various depictions, Krishna is portrayed as purple or dark colored whereas the women he is seducing, the gopis (cow herding girls or milkmaids), are depicted as white in color. That too describes the activities of Nimrod immediately after the Flood, being the very cause of his rebellion against Noah and Shem. In doing so, Nimrod was merely imitating the acts of his ancestors Lamech and Tubalcain before the Flood. He had also assumed Tubalcain's other name, Dionysius, after the Flood so that the deeds of Dionysius could be attributed to him in the ancient history written in perverted form by Semiramis. Tubalcain’s wife was the original white Aphrodyte of the myths. Thus, Krishna again stands identified as Nimrod. He walked the earth between 4,130 – 4,250 years ago. He was slain prematurely at about 120 years of age when his half-brother Rama lived about 425 years.

Next consider various Indian gods or ‘avtars’, meaning reincarnations of previous gods. Rama is considered to be the reincarnation of the god Vishnu. Indra of the Indian myths, Zeus of the Greeks and Jupiter of the Romans has been identified as Lamech in the Bible. Since Lamech existed before the Flood, Indra is not considered a reincarnation of any god. Reincarnation of a god means that in real life, the human person who has been deified existed after the Flood. That’s why the half-brothers Rama and Krishna, born 20-25 years apart are considered avatars of Vishnu. This way we can place Krishna and Rama correctly in real history. Because Rama was the older of the two, the Mahabharata [written after the Ramayana] acknowledges the existence of Rama whereas the Ramayana does not acknowledge the existence of Krishna. Moreover, Nimrod was executed when he was only about 120 years old whereas Rama lived to be about 425 years old.

Though Nimrod did not migrate to India but went to Egypt, the Krishna tradition in India indicates that he had a strong influence over the descendants of his half-brother Rama. He was after all the top leader of the rebels.

As already mentioned, Rama is mentioned in the Mahabharata, but Krishna is not mentioned in the Ramayana. The reason is that after migration Rama lived in India and by that time Krishna or Nimrod was long dead. Myths are the handiwork of Semiramis under Satan’s influence and are designed to pervert ancient history to make it appear to be much older to deceive humanity into believing that the bible contains myths and can’t be believed because it states that humanity was created only about 6,000 years ago.

The priests, the sons of Arphaxad, who worked with Semiramis carried on Semiramis’s plot to pervert ancient history. All the stories written about them and their words and deeds by Vyasa (in the case of Krishna in the Mahabharata and the Bhagwat Gita) and Valmiki and Tulsidas (in the case of Rama in their different versions of the Ramayana) are encrusted with myths, removed from their actual time period and places in the case of Nimrod or Krishna (because he ruled over all the rebels and traveled and moved among them), designed to teach lessons and values. These are embellished histories. The priests placed Nimrod in the lands they finally settled in with the Egyptians placing him in Egypt as their god Osiris, Babylonians placing him in Babylon as the god Tammuz, Greeks as the god Bacchus and Baal or Marduk of the Assyrians placing him in Assyria. But Krishna and Rama can be identified in real world history.

According to ancient historians, another son of Cush, Seba (Genesis 10:7), with straight hair migrated to India and Sri Lanka. His descendants in South India are known as Dravidians. Ancient historians called them Sibae (Smith's Classical Dictionary).

Rajputs of Rajasthan State

Just as Cush the black son of Ham and Naamah had two branches of his descendants, the western one with curly hair and the eastern one with straight hair, historians believe that Phut (or Put), another son of Ham and Naamah had two branches of descendants, one with slightly curly hair and the other with straight hair and slightly lighter in color. The one with curly hair are well known to have settled in Libya. Lesser known is that the eastern branch with straight hair settled in India.

Regarding the people of Put or Phut, historian George Rawlinson wrote: "This term is obscure...In most (scriptures). Phut is joined with tribes which are distinctively African; but in two of them (Ezek [27].10, and [38].5), the accompanying nations seem to be Asiatic. The explanation of this may possibly be that, as there were two Cushes, so there were two Phuts, one Asiatic, and the other African" (From United Church of God Bible Commentary, as quoted by Craig White, p. 97).

Large western parts of India were known as Rajputana (modern Rajasthan state). Rajputana was a group of princely states ruled over by a warrior group of people known as the Rajputs (meaning 'chief of Put' or 'chief, rulers or rajas over Put', Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.) "Phut" or "Put" means a "warrior" in Hebrew. The Phutites over millennia would certainly have mixed with the Cushites. In northern India, near Bhutan, we find the town called Panta, later Patali-putra, the capital city of Maghada State. The Rajputs and others drove the Dravidian Cushites into Central and Southern India. Those Phutites which settled in Central India mixed with the Dravidians. In the east some mixed with the Mongoloids" (Craig White, pp. 97-98).

Another characteristic of the Phutites is that they have done very poorly in agricultural pursuits. In most places they have let their previously fertile lands turn into deserts. It is true of the western Phutite branch in Libya as well as of the eastern Phutite branch in Rajasthan. Their stress was on warfare.

The Cushites in India would be settled mainly in the Indian states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh (particularly Eastern U.P.), Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Bengal (including Bangladesh), Odisha, Assam and the original inhabitants of North India and what is Pakistan today. The Phutites live mainly in Rajasthan, and mixed with the Cushites in Gujarat, northwestern parts of Madhya Pradesh and northern Maharashtra. The Dravidians, descendants of Seba, live mainly in the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Over centuries and millennia, there has been some racial mixing between the Cushites and Dravidians in the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh and Odisha and between the Cushites and Phutites in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The racial mixing is evident in the urban areas whereas it is less in rural areas where people are generally darker than those in urban areas. Remember Cush means black. Hence the darker people are most likely of Cushite stock.

According to the Babylonian historian Berossus, Ham the father of Cush and Phut spent his last decades ruling in Bactria (located in present day Turkmenistan, northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan) and among the Persians. The Cushites lived in that area. They later migrated to India. He was thus ruling over the eastern branch of Cush and Phut, after having ruled over the western branch in Africa. Since he was allowed to rule over them also means that most likely Elam, the ancestor of the Persians had married one of Ham’s swarthy white daughters. This is also evidence that most of the Indians are descendants of Ham.

Phut the son of Ham also spent some time in the same area. The explanation is that the eastern branch of his descendants lived there who later migrated to Rajasthan in India.

The Brahmins

The racial origins of the Brahmins, the highest caste who are also priests were previously identified. They are descendants of Arphaxad the white son of Shem. They were lured by the rebels to join them with great financial incentives in the form of one-third of the land, freedom from tribute and taxes, and received the generous offerings of the people for their priestly duties. But they also mixed with the dark descendants of Cush and Phut as one of the goals of Cush, Nimrod and Semiramis was mixing the races when all lived in the land of Shinar in and around Babylon. They lived mainly in urban areas. That’s why people in urban areas in India are slightly lighter in color than in rural areas. This racial mixing would have continued over the past 4000 years. They live in every state in India.

The original Brahmins, the descendants of Arphaxad mixed with the Cushites were few in number. Since they were priests to all people in India, they went where the people went for whom they performed priestly duties. That’s why they are spread all over India.

The Israelite origins of Punjabis will be discussed next. But in the Greater Punjab area (consisting of the current Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh – particularly Western U.P., Uttarakhand, and Pakistan) the Brahmins mixed with the white Israelites beginning more than 2,500 years ago. Then Muslim invaders started coming about 1,000 years ago. Pathans or Pashtuns (with origins in Iran) and other Iranians had a practice of heavily mixing with locals through marriages and outwardly assuming the identity of the locals but letting their children know of their Iranian or Pathan identity. In fact, Iranians and Pathans carry on that practice even today.

Since the original Brahmin population was small, the children of Iranians and Pathans who married among them called themselves Brahmins. Over centuries the original Brahmins were subsumed into this part of the Pathan population but calling themselves Brahmins because that highest caste status brought them privileges, respect and veneration in all Indian society.

This fact has been discovered only recently because of electronic surveillance. Even the Brahmins in various parts of India did not know that Brahmins in other parts of India were Pathans masquerading as Brahmins. But electronic surveillance revealed that all Brahmins all over India were telling their children their true origins as Pathans. Therefore, all Brahmins all over India are Pathans masquerading as Brahmins, having subsumed the original small Brahmin population among them. The most famous Pathans masquerading as Brahmins are the Nehru and Indira Gandhi family.

Muslims in India

Muslims first made contact in India via trade in the early 7th century in the Malabar Coast in Kerala state and Gujarat. The first Muslim foothold occurred with the 712 C.E. conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Commander, Muhammad bin Qasim, the Umayyads being the first hereditary dynasty of the Islamic Caliphate, ruling from Damascus, Syria. Then Mahmud of Ghazni, with a Turkic father and a local Iranian noblewoman as mother, conducted approximately 17 raids into India between 1000 and 1027 AD, primarily for looting wealthy temples to fund his capital in Afghanistan with the most destructive and the richest campaign being the 1025-1026 plunder of the Somnath temple.

In 1192, Muizuddin Muhammad of Ghor, of east Iranian origin, defeated Prithviraj Chauhan at the Battle of Tarain, opening North India to conquest, laying the foundation of Muslim rule in India. Then Qutb ud-Din Aibak, a Ghurid commander and slave of Muhammad of Ghor, founded the Delhi Sultanate in 1206 on the assassination of his master, establishing the first major Islamic state in India. Later the Khalji and Tughlaq Dynasties of mixed Turkic, Afghan, and Indian descent expanded Muslim rule across the Indian subcontinent.

In 1202, Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji conquered Bengal which was the easternmost expansion of Islam at the time. These conquests have been considered by some historians to be the “bloodiest in history," with massacres, mass conversions, and the destruction and desecration of temples.

Babur, who traced his descent from Turkic warriors (Timur) and Mongol khans, conquered North India in 1526, defeating Ibrahim Lodi of the Delhi Sultanate at the First Battle of Panipat, establishing the Mughal Empire. He subsequently defeated the Rajput confederacy led by Rana Sanga at the Battle of Khanwa in 1527 and later defeated the Afghan forces under Mahmud Lodi at the Battle of Ghaghra in 1529 to consolidate his power. The Mughal Empire reached its peak under Emperor Aurangzeb till his death in 1707.

Though the Muslim dynasties in India were diverse in Turkic, Afghan and Iranian origin, they were linked together by the Iranian or Persianate culture and Islam. Their descendants later mixed through marriages. Though the rulers were of diverse origin, most of the settlers as soldiers, traders or employed in the service of the empires were of Iranian or Afghan origin. There were also forcible conversions to Islam while some converted due to the preaching of Sufi saints. Conversions also occurred for economic benefits, such as avoiding the jizya tax, or for social mobility, especially from lower-caste communities. As conversions took place, the converts, mixed with the Iranian, Afghan or Pathan origin Muslims, identified themselves as Iranians or Afghans or Pathans. Now all their Muslim descendants in the Indian subcontinent (including in Bangladesh) consider themselves to be Pathans or Iranians, except those Muslims of Pakistan who consider themselves to be Punjabis or Sindhis and not Pashtuns or Pathans.

Just as the Pathans subsumed the original Brahmins in India, they have subsumed all the Muslims as well so that all Brahmins and Muslims in the Indian subcontinent now consider themselves to be Pathans.

Israelite Origins of Punjabis

The eastern branch of Cush through his sons Rama and Seba, and the eastern branch of Phut are not the only races living in India. Besides the original Brahmins, already mixed with Cushites, other white people are settled in North India, mixed with the descendants of Rama and the Brahmins. This is how this came about.

White people of America, British Commonwealth nations, Jews in Israel and worldwide, France, Switzerland, Ireland, Scandinavian and Benelux countries are descended from the 12 tribes of the biblical patriarch Israel, whose other name was Jacob, the grandson of Abraham.

After ancient Israel’s exodus from Egypt, they settled in the land of the Canaanites called Palestine by the Romans which is Israel today. After the death of King Solomon, the nation split into two with the Southern Kingdom called the House of Judah (or Jews) consisting of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with most from the tribe of Levi, and the Northern kingdom called the House of Israel, consisting of the other ten tribes.

Because of their sins, God allowed the northern House of Israel to be defeated by the Assyrians (ancestors of the modern Germans) who enslaved and removed them from their lands completely by 722 BCE and resettled them in their southern and eastern provinces around the Caspian and Black Seas. Within ten years after the fall of the House of Israel, the Assyrian king (Sennacherib, 2 Kings 18:13) returned and captured all of the fortified cities of the Southern kingdom, the House of Judah. But he was unable to take the capital Jerusalem. He placed these Jews taken captive in this campaign along with the captives of the House of Israel in various provinces of his empire.

Even before the Assyrian empire was destroyed in 612 BCE, many of the Israelites and the Jews had escaped captivity under the Assyrians. After the destruction of the Assyrian Empire most of them obtained their freedom.

These free white Israelites roamed the Eurasian steppes from 700 BCE to 200 BCE. Some of them intermarried with the local peoples among whom they roamed and settled down. They also roamed in Northwestern India. Some of them intermarried among Indians in Punjab, most definitely among the royalty (Kshatriyas) and the Brahmins. Brahmins have always angled to marry the most beautiful women they could find and give their daughters to the fairest men. The Brahmins and Kshatriyas certainly must have done everything possible to seek out and marry European white daughters of the Israelites ‘roaming’ among them. And the Israelite men would also have married into the highest castes. The reason is that the roaming Israelites established their rule in parts of the lands they lived in. That’s why they would have married into families with the highest status in their lands.

Most of the people living in what I call Greater Punjab (consisting of the whole of Pakistan, including all the Sindhis, and the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh) are descendants of these Israelites who had intermarried with Indians, particularly the Brahmins and the Kshatriyas. The Jews among these Indians are known today as Jats, which is derived from the word Jude, a short form of the word Judah. These Jews were carried captive by the Assyrian king Sennacherib and placed with the Israelite tribes of the Northern Kingdom. The fact that the Jats live in Greater Punjab is also proof that other Punjabis, particularly Kshatriyas and Brahmins (whose small population was later subsumed by the Pathans and Iranians) are one and the same people, meaning from intermarriages with the other tribes of Israel.

Here is a quote concerning the origins of Jats from Appendix 13 in the United Church of God eBooklet titled “The Throne of Britain: Its Biblical Origin and Future”:

“Judah was a nation of Judahites (Jews), Benjamites and Levites. Thus, it appears that a large number of these tribal groups were added to the captivity of the northern Israelites—who were at this time located in Assyria and Armenia in the west and Media and Persia in the east. It seems likely that the Jewish captives were taken to these same areas.

“Author Stephen Collins notes: "When describing the Sacae Scythian tribes who migrated out of Asia in the second century B.C. [previously captive Israelites—descendants of Isaac], George Rawlinson notes that the greatest tribe, the Massagetae, was also named the ‘great Jits, or Jats’ ["Jats," The Sixth Oriental Monarchy, 1872, Vol. 11, p. 357, means that the Jats were rulers] . . . The term ‘Jat’ has survived as a caste-name in Northwest India [which bordered Persia and Parthia] into modern times, attesting to the ancient dominance of the Jats in that region" (The "Lost" Tribes of Israel . . . Found, 1992, 1995, p. 343).

“This name could conceivably be a contraction of Judahite (Hebrew Yehudi, which perhaps became Jehuti (we’ll see more about phonetic shift in language in a moment).”

“It is possible that these people were related to a group known as the Yueh-chih. Says the Encyclopedia Britannica: "Yueh-chih, also called Indo-Scyths, ancient people who ruled in Bactria (now Afghanistan) and India from c. 128 BC to c. AD 450. The Yueh-chih are first mentioned in Chinese sources at the beginning of the 2nd century BC as nomads living in . . . northwest China . . . They and related tribes are the Asi (or Asiani) and Tocharians (Tochari) of Western sources" ("Yueh-chih," Vol. 12, p. 869). And the Asi may well be the Aser [the tribe of Asher the son of Jacob] of the Norse sagas.

In the same article the Britannica says: "The Hephthalites…[were] originally a Yueh-chih tribe." They were also known as the "White Huns" and their names are sometimes given as "Nephthalites" (compare "Ephthalites, or White Huns," Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, on-line at 89)—likely, as Collins points out, a derivation of the Israelite tribe of Naphtali (p. 237). If the name Yueh-chih perhaps derives from Judah or Yehudah, then the description of Naphtali as a Yueh-chih tribe could possibly indicate that the Jews [Jats] were dispersed throughout the other tribes as leaders in their migrations.”

Various tribes of Israel before migrating Northwest to Europe, roamed Northwest India, Eastern Persia and Northwest China and over periods of time established their rule. In ancient history they are known by various names such as Parthians, Scythians, Saca, Saka, Jats, Hephthalites (“White Huns”) or Asi.

About 135 years after the Assyrian captivity of the House of Israel and a portion of the House of Judah ten years later, in 587 BCE the Southern Kingdom, House of Judah was defeated by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and removed from their land and settled in the provinces of Babylon. Later, the Persians and Medes defeated the Babylonians and absorbed the entire Babylonian empire into the Persian Empire. Cyrus the Great of Persia made a decree to allow the Jews in his kingdom to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple and restore the Jewish worship system. But only a few of the Jews went back. The descendants of these Jews are known as Jews around the world today because they have maintained their identity by keeping the Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset as their day of worship. Most of the remaining Jews did not return to Jerusalem. Many of their descendants can be found in Iran. In Greater Punjab today they are known as Saini, Sahni, Soni and Sawhney (Saini being the generic name; since vowels were not preserved in Hebrew, Saini could be changed by clans within the group into Sahni, Soni and Sawhney). Some have their last names based on different gotras (“subcastes”), like subtribes or clans within a larger tribe.

Here is another tidbit of information. About 50% of Jats live in Pakistan and are Muslims, and the rest live in India of whom about 35% of the total are Sikhs and about 15% are Hindus. I don’t know what percentage of Sainis converted to Islam and live in Pakistan, probably none or very few. But about half of those in India are Sikhs and the other half are Hindus.

PATHAN AND RAJPUT MASQUERADERS

Punjabis have faced a massive problem over the past 77 years since India’s independence. Sikhs primarily, but Punjabi Hindus also to some degree faced discrimination in every sphere of life including economically from Indians allied with Germans and German masqueraders because they fought the Germans in World War 2. The Germans targeted all people who fought against them for extermination, the Sikhs especially because they were part of the British Indian armies in large numbers.

Sikhism is a religion and people of many ethnicities are Sikhs living in Punjab. Among genuine Punjabi Sikhs, many Rajputs from the Rajasthan state in India and Pathans (known as Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan) whose origins are from Afghanistan and before that from Iran are also Sikhs by religion. Both Rajput and Pathan Sikhs have been allied with the Germans since India’s independence in 1947 and have pursued their agenda to destroy genuine Punjabi Sikhs and discriminate against and impoverish them till that goal is achieved. Only in the past 5 years has their ethnic identity been fully discovered, partly through electronic surveillance.

The four German genocide attempts against Punjabi Sikhs since India’s independence include:

1) Orchestrated by German masquerader Prime Minister Clement Attlee of U.K. and other colonial officials such as Lord Mountbatten at the time of India’s partition in 1947 by not intervening militarily in the massacre of Hindus, Sikhs and of Muslims in retaliation started by Pashtun tribesmen. An estimated one million Punjabi Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs massacred each other.

2) In the 1965 war when a Pashtun, General Ayub Khan, was President of Pakistan, the plan of the Indian Army Chief, the Brahmin (who are Pashtuns masquerading as Brahmins) General J.N. Chaudhari, was to order the Sikh field commander, Lt. General Harbakhsh Singh to withdraw his forces and have the Pakistani forces occupy large areas of Punjab and Kashmir states and massacre Punjabis and Sikhs. General Harbakhsh Singh disobeyed his orders and ordered his forces to advance into Pakistan, finally reaching the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city. Thus, the genocide attempt was thwarted.

3) In the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the Parsi (of Iranian origin, which means from Persia) Army Chief General Sam Manekshaw left the Punjab area lightly defended so that the Pakistani army could walk into India all the way to Delhi and massacre Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs. But the Pakistani Punjabi field commander Brigadier Parvez Musharraf did not permit his forces to advance into India, averting the massacre. In this war, Pakistan’s President was the Pashtun General Yahya Khan.

4) In 1984, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian army to flush out and kill a Sikh militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, semi-literate (primary school education and one year in a religious school later) whom she herself had propped up, after he had started killing Hindus and Sikhs. Her purpose in propping him up was to divide the Sikh vote so that her Congress Party would keep winning elections in Punjab state and also to keep Sikhs fighting and destroying each other. Emboldened by the success of her plans, she planned to massacre more than 100,000 Sikhs in Delhi on one of their religious functions. The U.S. alerted the Sikhs about the planned massacre, resulting in Indira Gandhi being assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. Then about 30,000 Sikhs were killed all over India to avenge her death. If the planned massacre had succeeded, Indira Gandhi would have been emboldened to carry out a genocide against the Sikhs.

Some names of Rajputs masquerading as genuine Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus are Sidhu, Sandhu, Puri, Kapur, Batra and Kalra. Of course, all Banias with names such as Gupta, Agarwal, Bansal, Garg, Mahajan, Munjal, Singla, Goel, Jindal, Mittal among others are from Rajasthan.

Some names of Pathans masquerading as genuine Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus include Kakkar, Sehmbey, Shah and Malik. All Brahmins and Muslims all over India are Pathans or Iranians. All Parsis are Iranians.

Just as German masqueraders in the USA and British Commonwealth nations have looted the economies of the nations in which they live by discriminating against white Americans or Britons of non-German ancestry, Rajput and Pathan Sikhs and Hindus, masquerading as genuine Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus have looted Punjab’s economy and impoverished genuine Punjabis.

For example, genuine Punjabis thought all Sidhus and Sandus were Jutts and genuine Punjabi Sikhs. The Sidhus and Sandhus supported their own businesses, gave each other jobs and promotions. Thinking them to be genuine Punjabi Sikhs, genuine Punjabis also supported their businesses and promoted them in jobs while they discriminated against genuine Punjabi Sikhs in giving them jobs or promoting them and also did not support their businesses. The result was that Rajput Sikhs masquerading as genuine Punjabis prospered in their businesses as well as jobs whereas genuine Punjabi Sikhs were impoverished.

Genuine Punjabi Sikhs sensed that they were being discriminated against by all other Indians but were not sure because they saw some evidence to the contrary in that some Punjabi Sikhs such as Sandhu, Sidhu, Puri etc. were prospering. Only in the last 5-6 years has the truth become known to us when we discovered that Sidhus, Sandhus, Puris etc. were Rajputs masquerading as genuine Punjabi Sikhs. They were not being discriminated against by other Indians but were being helped by them. Only genuine Punjabi Sikhs and to some extent Hindus were being discriminated against to impoverish them.

OTHER JEWS IN INDIA

Though the Jats and Sainis are Jews, they do not know themselves to be Jews. They lost their identity because they lost their identifying sign, keeping the seventh day (from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset) holy and the day to rest and worship God (Exodus 31:12-17). However, they have been identified as Jews because their last name is based on their tribe’s name “Judah” in the case of the Jats and on Sion (or Mount Sion or Zion, another name for Jerusalem) from where they came. Just as a person from Iran is called Irani in the Indian languages, a person from Sion would be called a Sioni, pronounced as Saini. Other Israelite tribes settled in Punjab through intermarriages with local Indians could not be identified as Israelites by their specific tribal name because they too lost their identifying sign, the Sabbath and their last names are not based on their Israelite tribal name.

There are small colonies of Jews living in India such as in Mumbai, Kochi and Calcutta. These are descendants of the Jews that went back to Jerusalem or Israel from their Babylonian captivity after the Persian King Cyrus’s edict to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. The descendants of those Jews have maintained their identity as Jews because they have always kept the Sabbath holy. They fled the land of Israel to other parts of the world after the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. It is these Jews who are settled in India in small colonies and are still known as Jews.