Talk:History of the Jews in India

message: What is Desi Jew, no such term in use, invented here.
This should not be merged with Desi Jew. The term is incorrect. Indian Jews is the right title. ~rAGU
:I agree with you.  Desi Jew is a bogus category.  Fowler&fowler 20:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Desi Jews

message: The map lists areas of 'Jewish CONCENTRATION'. Is it just a coincidence?
59.183.163.124 18:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Concentration

message: The term, 'brown Jews' and 'black Jews', doesn't it refer to Jews who have dark skin? Aren't there native Indians who practice Judaism? It's said that The Jews with the darkest skin come from the tropics of India. Wouldn't the dark-skinned Jews be natives, too? Whenever I look at this page, I see things about Jews of Mesopotamian descent or Persian descent. However, I do agree that the Jewish Indians, along with all non-Hebrew Jews, are either the descendants of converts or they are converts.
---GooglePedia12 21:37, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the article again. In the intro, groups #4 and #5 are "native Indians" and not immigrants. Goup #4 probably doesn't fit your dark skin description considering that they're from the northeastern Indian states and are of Mongoloid stock, but Group #5 are Telugu (Andhra Pradeshi) people and tend to be dark. 24.184.166.238 (talk) 22:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about ethnic Indians who are Jewish? 

message: Please, can some one add information about the current population count. My understanding is the current population is mostly old people left behind after kids migrated. Also can some one add links to famous synagogue in India like the one in Pune (largest in Asia).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.152.10.63 (talk) 05:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This recent CNN article puts the population of Bagdhadi Jews in India at less than 100. (http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/india.jews/index.html?hpt=C1) It's probably a good resource to update this article more generally. Nathan McKnight -- Aelffin (talk) 15:10, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Situation 

message: The map of India is incorrect. It shows a large part of Kashmir in Pakistan.
This is not correct since it is disputed. Can someone please upload a correct map of India here? Thank you. Katyare (talk) 01:52, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map of India is incorrect 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :History of the Jews in India's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "thehindu.com":
From Kerala: 
From Paradesi Jews: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 11:37, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:History of the Jews in India]] 

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message: I'm surprised the authors haven't mentioned Vice-Admiral Benjamin Abraham Samson of the Indian Navy.  Tofindya (talk) 23:21, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notables 

message: Is there actually a jewish community called Madras Jews existed in India?They were just sephardim Jews expelled from Iberian peninsula settled in Madras.They were called Paradesi Jews in Cochin Kingdom.There is not records of calling them paradesi jews in Madras then.Paradesi Jews had migrated to Cochin and Bombay apart from Madras.Madras never had any unique Jewish Identity like Cochin and Bombay.These grouos were random settlers.There should be a rethinking in the Phrase Madras Jews. Skylark95choppen (talk) 17:13, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Madras Jews; An unsuitable phrase and fact? 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:History of the Jews in Abkhazia which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 05:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: Arunachal Pradesh,Ladakh,Jammu and Indian administered Kashmir is a part of India. ShikaDikaMika (talk) 12:11, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect Map of India 

message: I’m looking to add a “Holocaust Refugees” section to this article and add them as group number “9” under the “Jewish groups in India” section. This Wikipedia page details the members of the main Jewish groups in India, but is not as detailed in regards to how those groups arrived in India. I believe that inputting information in this respect will greatly add to the educational value of this already interesting and important page. Jewish Holocaust refugees who migrated to India between the late 1930s and 1940s were small in number - roughly 2,000 according to some estimates - but they have a distinct and significant identity within the topic of “Jews in India.” “Framing the Refugee Experience: Reflections on German-Speaking Jews in British India, 1938–1947” will serve as my source for this addition, as it is an academically reviewed bulletin article written by Joseph Cronin, a lecturer at Queen Mary University London with a background in studying German-Jewish history. 
For this article, I would add a brief description of the refugees’ population, their countries of origin (mainly Germany and Austria), and the complications surrounding their time in or migrating India (changes in British imperial visa policies and internment). My new subcategory of “Holocaust Refugees” would expand upon those details, noting the disproportionately high percentage of Jewish medical workers who migrated to the area, the overwhelmingly empathetic writings on the refugees, by literate Indian natives, and the push from two Jewish aid organizations (the Jewish Relief Association and the Council for German Jewry) for the British Imperial government to loosen their restrictions on incoming Jewish refugees. I plan on adding about 15-20 sentences total. If anyone has any input on this idea or wants to discuss it further, please feel free to comment on this Talk page or on my own Talk page. ZoeJJohnson (talk) 20:11, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holocaust Refugees 

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message: One of the first sentences of this article is "They were able to survive for centuries despite persecution and antisemitic inquisitions". Following the source, it seems that there was antisemetism by the Portuguese (not native Indians) for only a short time during their long history in India.
Why is this sentence front and center? It should be moved down to the section on Kochin and it should have the status of a sidebar. Kapelner (talk) 04:58, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  antisemetism