This book examines both Indian sentiments toward the subcontinent’s Jewish populations and the way Jews and Judaism have been represented in Indian discourse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Despite the fact that India’s Jewish population is one of the country’s tiny minorities, local Jews’ interactions with other communities are an important aspect of the country’s multicultural heritage. This has grown increasingly visible during the last two centuries, like Judaism and its image have been discussed by some of the most prominent personalities in various religious and nationalist groups, as well as leaders of independent India and the Indian media. Furthermore, Indians from two separate geographies and religious groups have adopted Israelite identification in recent decades.
Jews and India try to address this condition by exploring these trends and providing a fascinating look into these difficulties, despite the fact that it is a topic that has received little attention. Scholars of Jewish and Indian cultural studies will be interested in this book.
Source: https://www.routledge.com/Jews-and-India-Perceptions-and-Image/Egorova/p/book/9780415558884
