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
Joan G. Roland is professor of history at Pace University in New York. She is the editor of Africa: The Heritage and the Challenge.
-Roland portrays sensitively the evolution of the identity of the
two groups from the arrival of the British to the emergence of
independent India. . . [The Jewish Communities of India] is an
important work that illuminates not only a little-known aspect of
Jewish and Indian history, but also the process of the emergence of
ethnic and national identities in multicultural settings.--- Aron
Rodrigue, American Historical Review Joan Roland gives an admirably
lucid and thoughtful account of Indian Jewish history.--Anita
Desai, New York Review of Books
"Roland portrays sensitively the evolution of the identity of the
two groups from the arrival of the British to the emergence of
independent India. . . [The Jewish Communities of India] is an
important work that illuminates not only a little-known aspect of
Jewish and Indian history, but also the process of the emergence of
ethnic and national identities in multicultural settings."-- Aron
Rodrigue, American Historical Review Joan Roland gives an admirably
lucid and thoughtful account of Indian Jewish history."-Anita
Desai, New York Review of Books
"Roland portrays sensitively the evolution of the identity of the
two groups from the arrival of the British to the emergence of
independent India. . . [The Jewish Communities of India] is an
important work that illuminates not only a little-known aspect of
Jewish and Indian history, but also the process of the emergence of
ethnic and national identities in multicultural settings."-- Aron
Rodrigue, American Historical Review Joan Roland gives an admirably
lucid and thoughtful account of Indian Jewish history."-Anita
Desai, New York Review of Books
"Roland portrays sensitively the evolution of the identity of the
two groups from the arrival of the British to the emergence of
independent India. . . [The Jewish Communities of India] is an
important work that illuminates not only a little-known aspect of
Jewish and Indian history, but also the process of the emergence of
ethnic and national identities in multicultural settings."-- Aron
Rodrigue, American Historical ReviewJoan Roland gives an admirably
lucid and thoughtful account of Indian Jewish history."-Anita
Desai, New York Review of Books
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