392 Pages
by
Routledge
392 Pages
by
Routledge
392 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although the Bene Israel community of western India, the Baghdadi Jews of Bombay and Calcutta, and the Cochin Jews of the Malabar Coast form a tiny segment of the Indian population, their long-term residence within a vastly different culture has always made them the subject of much curiosity. India is perhaps the one country in the world where Jews have never been exposed to anti-Semitism, but in... Read more
Introduction; I: The Setting; 1: Jews and Society in Premodern India; II: Changing Relationships 1870–1918; 2: The Emergence of Indian Nationalism; 3: A State of Complex Identities; III: Jewish Options in the Interwar Years, 1919–39; 4: Indians, Jews, or Europeans?; 5: Intracommunal Struggles and Zionism; 6: A Heightened Jewish Consciousness; IV: The War and Its Aftermath; 7: Challenges of the War; 8: The Postwar Dilemma; Conclusion; Epilogue to the Transaction Edition: Challenges in India and Israel at the Turn of the Century
Biography
Joan G. Roland
