The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era

Joan G. Roland

Cover of "Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era"Focusing primarily on the Bene Israel and Baghdadis in the late 19th and 20th 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.