[silk] jews in india

[Rishab Aiyer Ghosh]

india was the only place in the world where jews were never persecuted, and 
outlook has a nice article [1]. it doesn't mention cochin jews though [2], 
who were protected by the raja from the portuguese, who _did_ persecute 
jews, until they were rescued by the 125-yr-long dutch occupation of 
malabar. speaking of which, we hear about french colonies in india, but 
hardly ever about the dutch ones, let alone the _danish_ colonies - and 
denmark held on to tranquebar for 225 years [3], and even the nicobar 
islands...

-rishab
1. 
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20060710&fname=JEWS+%28F%29&sid=1

2. http://www.bh.org.il/Communities/Archive/Cochin.asp

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquebar