Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century

1. Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the Margin
Nathan Katz

Part I. Historical Studies, Ancient and Medieval

2. Reaching out to Distant Shores: Indo-Judaic Trade Contacts (Up to CE 1300)
Ranabir Chakravarti

3. Traders and Ideas: Indians and Jews
Brain Weinstein

4. Hindus and Hinduism in Medieval Jewish Literature
Richard G. Marks

Part II. Comparative Religious Studies

5. Beyond Hegemony: Hinduisms, Judaisms, and the Politics of Comparison
Barbara A. Holdrege

6. Divine Anthropos and Cosmic Tree: Hindu and Jewish Mysticism in Comparative Perspective
Braj M. Sinha

7. The State of the Art of Hindu Jewish Dialogue
Nathan Katz

Part III. Jewish (and Near-Jewish) Communities in India

8. New Research, Discoveries and Paradigms: A Report on the Current Study of Kerala Jews
Barbara C. Johnson

9. On Origins, the Arts, and Transformed Identities: Foci of Research into the Bene Israel
Shalva Weil

10. The Baghdadi Jews of India: Perspectives on the Study and Portrayal of a Community
Joan Roland

11. Tribal Jews
Tudor Parfitt

Part IV. Contemporary Interactions in Polity, Political Discourse, and Diplomacy

12. Describing the “Other, ” Describing the “Self”: Jews, Hindu Reformers, and Indian Nationalists
Yulia Egorova

13. India and Israel: The Diplomatic History
P. R. Kumaraswamy

14. India and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Shifting Strategic Focus
Dinesh Kumar

15. The Multicultural Issue in India and Israel—Some Reflections
Margaret Chatterjee

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Religion, Religious Studies, general, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Asian Culture, History of Religion, Asian History