By Joshua Benjamin

Greater than 3 thousand years in the past, at the destruction in their temple in Jerusalem, the 2 Jewish tribes that comprised the dominion of Judah and the 10 that constituted the dominion of Israel have been dispersed below the strain of the invaders. The dispersion of the 2 Judean tribes is easily recorded within the Bible and through historians of precedent days; yet surprisingly, that of the 10 tribes of Israel used to be both no longer recorded or used to be misplaced. This has remained considered one of history’s mysteries.
This publication describes many of the makes an attempt to unravel this secret, and lines the prospective applicants for attention as descendants of the misplaced tribes in areas as a long way aside as Ethiopia, China and India—in Kashmir, Manipur and coastal Maharashtra.
An early mythical seeker for the ‘dispersed of Israel’ used to be Jesus of Nazareth. The author’s research leads him to fascinating proof and legends about the probability that the 17 years of Jesus’ lifestyles unaccounted for within the Bible have been spent in India and likewise advances the prospect that Jesus again to India after surviving the crucifixion and of his final dying and burial at Rozabal in Kashmir.

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Hindus and Chinese. During the long centuries when the Indonesians were laying the foundations of their distinctive culture, they were shut off from the outer world. Then, about the beginning of the Christian era, world changes, which accompanied the foundation of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Han dynasty in China, broke in ripples on the shores of the archipelago, and brought in foreign traders, Hindu and, probably somewhat later, Chinese. Both presumably came in search of spices. The Chinese had an easy journey from their home ports in the adjacent mainland; but the Hindus, coming from a distant base in the far west, found it necessary, like the Portuguese and Dutch long afterwards, to secure their position in the Straits of Malacca, and to seek harbours in the archipelago where they could refresh themselves with rice and water.

But the station at Jacatra was an open challenge to a direct trial of strength, and its significance was emphasized by the establishment at the same time of posts in Sumatra, not only at Tiku and Jambi along the north coast, but at Achin, a vital spot in the line of communications between Bantam and the West. Coen, then Director at Bantam and Jacatra, and rightly honoured as the founder of the Dutch Empire in the East, took up the challenge, and warned the home authorities in the letter quoted above that they must be prepared to fight.

65; Dr G. W. R. Drewes in Schrieke, Western Influence, p. 135; Colenbrander, Geschiedenis, ii. 242. 2 CHAPTER II T H E EAST I N D I A COMPANY, 1600-1800 i. The Coming of the Dutch. When, for a second time, it seemed that political and economic power in the archipelago would pass to Islam, the course of events was changed by the arrival of the Dutch. The Dutch never wanted to come East; they were forced to come by the policy of Philip, who profited by his succession to the throne of Portugal in 1580 to close the Portuguese harbours to his rebellious Dutch subjects.

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