India - The Real Melting Pot !

[Bodhi]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->custom unique to the Bene Israel was abstaining from eating beef. The majority of Indians are Hindus. The Hindus believe that cow is sacred and therefore to maintain good relations with their Hindu neighbors they abstained from eating beef 
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Bene Israel’s population at their height was perhaps 30000 in India and that was in the 1950s. Proportionally they weren’t even 0.01% of the Indian population. Since the 1950s most of the Bene Israel have immigrated to Israel, and some to English speaking countries like Australia and England. Today in India there are less than 5000 Bene Israels, most of them live in Thana a suburb of Mumbai http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:ytgVt...n&gl=in&strip=1<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->