![]() ![]() They resist efforts to seek to communalize India’s past and present and contrast sharply with contemporary histories in India today that are being rewritten to serve communal politics,” as Silliman wrote in her book Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (2001), while working as a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. ![]() In this political context, minority narratives such as this one have an essentially important place. The novel The Man with Many Hats, written by Jael Silliman, becomes even more significant as “definitions of who is and who is not an Indian are being increasingly politicized, the identities of place are being essentialized and secular forces are increasingly challenged. The Jewish community of Kolkata was the last of the Jewish communities to settle in India and the first to leave it, but during their stay the Baghdadis made significant contributions to its cultural and commercial life. GREATER NOIDA, India - 19 th June, 2013 was a historic day as it saw the release of the only work of fiction by a member of the Baghdadi Jewish community of Kolkata. ![]()
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