An idea of inclusive India

A book of essays captures the Jewish diaspora's experience of philo-Semitism in the country

The relationship between India and Israel is often examined through a political lens, but it might be equally important to study it using a cultural and civilisational lens. This approach can expand our understanding of why these countries are on good terms with each other. The ideological affinities between Zionism and Hindutva offer only a partial view of the picture.

“Indian Jews have historically lived across diverse parts of the Indian subcontinent over the centuries without experiencing the sort of anti-Semitism that has been so common in many other parts of the world,” writes Ori Z Soltes in an anthology