The Jewish Communities of India - Identity in a Colonial Era / 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 the last century they have had to struggle to maintain their identity as they encountered two competing nationalisms: Indian nationalism and Zionism. Focusing primarily on the Bene Israel and Baghdadis in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Joan Roland describes how identities begun under the Indian caste system changed with British colonial rule, and then how the struggle for Indian independence and the establishment of a Jewish homeland raised even further questions. She also discuses the experiences of European Jewish

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	India--Jews--History / India--Jews--Identity / India--Ethnicrelations.
Classification	d.966 ROL
Publisher	New Jersey, USA, Transaction Publishers, 1998
Subject	India--Jews--HistoryIndia--Jews--IdentityIndia--Ethnic relations.Iranian-Jewish-Refugees-ChinaBaghdadi - JewsIndia--Cochin--JewsBene-Israel--History.Bene-Israel--History--19th century.Jews--India--History--1789-1945.Bene-Israel--History--20th century.
Description	392
ISBN	9781351309844
URL	https://books.google.com.hk/books/about/Jewish_Communities_of_India.html?id=gCNHDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=yhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7597968?q=9780765804396&c=book&sort=holdings+desc&_=1592464006388&versionId=8750088

Notes

Received from Mrs. Judy Green.