The Cochin Jewish community, numbering no more than 2,400 at its peak in 1948, lived in harmony with their Hindu, Christian, ...

Not to mention the Konkanis from Goa, victims of Portuguese persecution who arrived in Fort Kochi, or the Jews, who were said to have sailed to Kerala aboard the ships of King Solomon (986-932 BCE).

They kept their Jewish faith alive, practiced their customs, and remembered Israel as their rightful homeland, even as they lived in India. Similarly, Cochin and Baghdadi Jews knew their roots ...

The first to arrive, possibly in the last centuries BCE, were the Jews who settled in Cochin (now called Kochi), in south India. They remain a small but important presence in Kochi, a trading hub ...