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Western Jews in India : From the Fifteenth Century to the Present
Western Jews in India : From the Fifteenth Century to the Present
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Author(s): Robbins, Kenneth X.
ISBN No.: 9788173049835
Pages: 310
Year: 202105
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 149.35
Status: Out Of Print

Foreword: (a) Kocha Varma; Introduction: Western Jews on the Indian Subcotinent by Kenneth X. Robbins; 1. Jews in South Asia by Kenneth X. Robbins; 2. European Jews in the Military Service and Courts of Indian Rulers: (a) Jean-Baptiste Ventura (1794-1858): The Italian Jew who Became the French Commander-in Chief of the Sikh Army by Kenneth X. Robbins, (b) Farasu (1777-1861): Poet, Government Official, Soldier at the Court of Begum Samru by Kenneth X. Robbins; 3. Portuguese Service in India: (a) Jews and New Christians in Portuguese Service in India by Kenneth X.


Robbins, (b) The Polish Jew who became a Portuguese Lingua: Gaspar da Gama by Kenneth X. Robbins, (c) The Lingua of the City of Diu: Isaac of Cairo by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya; 4. Jews, New Christians, and the Portuguese on the South Malabar Coast by Kenneth X. Robbins; 5. Subversion in a Luminal Space: Perso-Arab Learning, Asian Medicinals and the European Classical Revival in the Coloquios (1563) of Garcia da Orta by Guy Attewell 6. Jews in the British Raj: Sir Edwin S. Montagu (1917-22) and Lord Reading (1921-6): (a) You have cut my bonds and set me free now let me help you set others free by Ainslie Embree, (b) Sir Edwin S. Montagu by Ainslie Embree, (c) Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading by Ainslie Embree, (d) Lord Readings First Year as Viceroy (As Seen by an Indian Jew) by M.


D. Borgawkar; 7. Between Faith and Reason: Waldemar Haffkine (1860-1930) in India by Marina Sorokina; 8. The Transformation of Leopold Weiss into Muhammad Asad (1900-1992) by Kenneth X. Robbins; 9. French Jewess to Indian Goddess: The Story of Mirra Alfassa, The Mother (1878-1973) by Kenneth X. Robbins; 10. Polish Jew to Hindu Sannyasi to Nisarga Yogist: Maurice Frydman (Bharatananda) (c.


1901-1976) by John McLeod and Kenneth X. Robbins; 11. Artists and Architects: (i) Western Jewish Women Artists: (a) Western Jewish Women Artists in South Asia by Kenneth X. Robbins, (b) Martha Isaacs: A Portraitist and Miniaturist in Calcutta: c. 1778-1822 by Kenneth X. Robbins, (c) Anna Molka Ahmed (1917-94): Pakistani National Artist by Kenneth X. Robbins, (ii) Western Jewish Architects: (a) Jewish Architects in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh by Kenneth X. Robbins, (b) The Natural Architecture of Joseph Allen Stein (1912-2001) by Terry Horowitz, (c) Moshe Safdie (b.


1938) and the Khalsa Heritage Complex: (1) Jewish Architect, Sikh Museum by Terry Horowtiz, (2) The Khalsa Memorial Complex at Anandpur Sahib, the Punjab by Moshe Safdie, (d) Monumental Magnificence: Louis I. Kahn in India and Bangladesh by Omar Khalidi, (e) Working with Muzharul Islam in Bangladesh by Stanley Tigerman, (f) The Architect Sidney Epstein and the House of Mewar: (1) Sidney Epstein by Kenneth X. Robbins, (2) My Personal Relationship with Sidney Epstein by Arvind Singh Mewar.


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