ABSTRACT
Aspects of Ahmadi identity are therefore considered throughout in relation to places and times which are themselves interlinked in complicated and occasionally fortuitous ways, and seen as far as possible from the perspective of the Ahmadis themselves as well as from a host of other positions, neutral, supportive and hostile to the Ahmadis. Identity, as it is commonplace to state, is not, despite the protestations of many who hold to the belief in an identity position as true and unchanging, fixed. For over a century the Ahmadis have responded to the ever shifting social and politial world around them and developed institutionally in ways their founder, Ghulam Ahmad, could not have imagined, though, the Ahmadis believe, in ways he would have approved of. Ahmadis are in the UK today because the British were in India in the past.
