The Jewish community in India is one among several other groups who had come from outside the country’s modern territorial borders and made it their home. The Indian Jews claim an ancestry of 2000 years in the region. In India they found a home and identity that they continued to relish for centuries to come. Scholars have frequently noted that India remains to be the only place in the world where Jews never had to face anti-semitism. With the independence of India in 1947 and the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948, however, India-Israel relations entered a whole...