Jalsa, December 1907
In Badr, 26th December 1907 on page 5, there is a report about the arrival of members in Qadian for the annual gathering and the preparations for this gathering.
At this link you can view, in pdf format, the scanned image of the page from Badr where this report is printed.
Many of us knew a person who attended this Jalsa! This was Hazrat Dr Saeed Ahmad Khan, late Head of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, who was either 7 or 8 years old at the time. He came to Qadian with his father, Maulvi Muhammad Yaqub, and they stayed in Qadian till March 1908.
On page 9 of the same issue it outlines the purposes of the Jalsa and the general form that it usually takes.
At this link you can view that part of page 9 in pdf format. (In this scanned image the first two paragraphs are rather light but still legible.)
According to an article published by BBC Urdu the total number of Ahmadiyya community in India is One hundred thousand.…
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