Interesting stuff
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Discovered this while researching the Sepoy Rebellion. Book: Bakony Itsvan -
The Jewish Fifth Column in India
I can see the source of your problems. Either you have a pre disposed inclination towards issues for reasons you know best as to how you acquired that bias & then constantly scour thru the internet in search of material to justify that bias or you read up from wrong sources for wrong opinions & then proceed to inflict everyone around with it , not to mention the fact that you're too easily impressionable which is normal for teens but not at your age .
The Bene Israeli weren't a prosperous community by any stretch of imagination. They were essentially of working class backgrounds.
The other class of Jews were the Cochin Jews who were essentially what we now call old money , mostly well established land lords.
The third category were the Baghdadi Jews who migrated to India in the early to mid 19th century & later to escape persecution in the Middle East. They were allies of the British EIC & foremost among the native opium traders along with the Parsi Zoroastrian community if you can actually describe both these groups as natives.
All these communities even in their hey day were extremely miniscule communities in terms of the population percentage with their influence over the British limited except for the Baghdadi Jews who like the rest of their brethren here enjoyed very good relations with the rest of the populace here - majority & minority. This is important. For Jews today don't enjoy good relations with the Muslims .
The Baghdadi Jews were thr first to emigrate to the UK & the rest of the world early in the 20th century . Check out David Sassoon . He was the most influential of all Baghdadi Jews. You can follow his family tree. You'd still see his descendants all over the world especially in the UK where they're firmly ensconced with the elites.
The other categories of Jews mentioned eventually made A'liyah to Israel once the state of Israel was established. In fact the Bene Israeli were so thoroughly nativised that they forgot some important Jewish customs & religious traditions & were initially suspected by the other Jewish groups in Israel of not being Jews at all.
They faced a lot of racism in Israel ironically & none in India for millennia forcing a few to return . That plus life in the early days in Israel was extremely tough . Mind you the Bene Israeli unlike the other groups were economic migrants to Israel but on having reached there saw life was harsher than in India .
Add racism to the mix & a few thought - why go through this sh!t when things were better in India ?! Hence those few returned. And this group was & is the most populous Jewish group in India . You ought to read up on this in case you're interested.
There are barely 2000 Jews in India today , shrinking rapidly , even as we speak.