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The Jewish Communities of India - Identity in a Colonial Era (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Jewish Communities of India - Identity in a Colonial Era (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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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 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 refugees who arrived in India after 1933 and
remained there until after World War II.To describe what it meant
to be a Jew in India, Roland draws on a wealth of materials such as
Indian Jewish periodicals, official and private archives, and
extensive interviews. Historians, Judaic studies specialist, India
area scholars, postcolonialist, and sociologists will all find this
book to be an engaging study. A new final chapter discusses the
position of the remaining Jews in India as well as the status of
Indian Jews in Israel at the end of the twentieth century.
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