Followers
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had a group of friends and admirers early on (early 1880s) who eventually increased their distance as his claims started to gain notoriety. Then, after 1889, he started to attracted those who believed in his claims and they grew to a few hundred by the mid-to-late 1890s.
Close Associates who Became Alienated
Original 313 (327)
This comes from a list that he published in one of his books. An estimate by Munir D. Ahmed shows that about two-thirds of these had left over the next decade or so.
Exact Numbers and Exaggeration
From around the Indian Census in 1901, the number has been ambiguous and has fluctuated wildly. H.A. Walter's The Ahmadiya Movement also describes this exaggeration.
In the 1990s, the Ahmadiyya leadership went on 'doubling' there numbers every year until it became untenable, by which time they had hit The 200 Million Figure. The official number has come down to 'tens of millions' since then, but the best estimates put them at somewhere between 500,000 to 2 million worldwide.
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Mir Abbas Ali Shah
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Mirza Khuda Bakhsh
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Mufti Muhammad Sadiq
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Mian Muhammad Khan
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Ghulam Muhammad
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Ghulam Qadir
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Khawaja Kamal-ud-Din
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Abdul Kareem Sialkoti
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