Jews and India: Perceptions and Image

by Yulia Egorova

Book Overview

Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities of the subcontinent and at the way Jews and Judaism in general have been represented in Indian discourse.

Despite the fact that the Indian Jewish population constitutes one of the country's tiniest minorities, the relations of the local Jews with other communities form an integral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415400406
• ISBN13: 9780415400404
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.5"