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The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India

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The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India

Yulia Egorova, "The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India"
English | ISBN: 0199929211 | 2013 | 224 pages | PDF | 1104 KB

The Jews of Andhra Pradesh is an engaging and thought-provoking ethnography devoted to the Bene Ephraim–a Dalit group in India that has embraced Jewish tradition. Egorova and Perwez offer a nuanced and theoretically-informed account which explores how the story of the Bene Ephraim challenges and extends contemporary understandings of Jewishness and illuminates radical new directions in Dalit discourse.

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