 The viewpoint of Jesus's migration to India had also been independently researched in the literature of authors prior to the foundation of the movement, for example most notably by the Russian historian Nicolas Notovitch in 1894.Ibn Babawayh (d.991 CE) in "Ikhmal ad Din" recounts that Jesus went to a far country.This was adapted by the Ahmadiyya as the basis of their Jesus in India theory

The claim of Jesus is buried at the Roza Bal shrine in Srinagar was promoted also by writers such as Holger Kersten (1981).