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  • 6 - Jewish Servicemen in the Indian Subcontinent

  • from Part ii - South Asia: Identity and Culture in British and Independent India
  • Edited by Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa, Israel
  • Book:
    Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
    Published online:
    11 August 2023
    Print publication:
    15 June 2023, pp 113-126

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the role India’s Jews played in the armies of the British Raj and subsequently in the armed forces of independent India. By the late nineteenth century, soldiery was one of Bene Israel’s primary occupations but of no other Jewish group at the time. With World War I, other Jewish groups in India began to enlist, and this tradition became even stronger after India's independence. The chapter also investigates the barriers against this service and the achievements in this field Jews have had nonetheless.