Jewish Communities of India - Identity in a Colonial Era

Informationen zum Autor Joan G. Roland Klappentext Focusing primarily on the Bene Israel and Baghdadis in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries! the author describes how identities begun under the cast system changed under British rule. Originally published in 1989 by University Press of New England under the title JEWS IN BRITISH INDIA. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Joan G Roland, Joan G. Roland, Roland Joan G.
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.1998
• EAN: 9780765804396
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0439-6
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, India, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Asia / South / India