The Evolution of the Ahmadi Sect in the Context of British Government’s Objectives in the Subcontinent

Mirza Ghulam Ahmed was born in 1839 or 1840 in the village of Qadian in Gurdaspur district from the province of Punjab in British India was the founder of the Ahmadi sect or community. And he at the age of 65 or 66 years in 24 Rabi al-Thani 1326 AH died. His father's name was Ghulam Murtaza, who belonged to Samarkandi Mughal family. When Mirza Ghulam Ahmad availed Arabic and Persian studies at home town then he worked in medicine (بطملع) along as a clerk in the deputy commissioner's office for about four years. He started participating in religious sermons, debates. Earlier it is known that his parents were Muslims and Mirza himself was following their footsteps in his early life. After that exhibiting himself as a reformer of religion in public Ghulam Ahmed fulfilling the planted project intends to write a book that would consist of fifty volumes named Roohani Khazain, in which the denial of Islam and other religions will be presented with strong and solid rational arguments. From 1880 to 1884, Mirza got published four volumes of that book and claimed that he was commissioned by inspiration (مØا) to publish new religion and he is the religious reformer (حلصم) of the century. In 1886 AD Mirza started In Hoshiarpur region many religious debates (انمرظہ) with Aarya Samaj. In this way he modeled himself as a religious reformer and new religious sect was created and he appointed many advisers and assistants like Hakeem Nooruddin and Din Shahi from Taibpur of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.1 So in this way Mirza Ghulam Ahmad became a colonial product of the British necessity to perform colonial objectives which Allama Syed Abu Al-Hassan Nadvi writes that "Mirza Ghulam Ahmad did not really add anything to any scientific or religious stock of Islam, which the history of reformation and revival of Islam remains his recognition and the modern generation of Muslims remains grateful to him, nor did he do any religious service that would benefit all the Muslims of the world.