15th–17th centuries
Sack of the Jewry of Cranganore
1524·Cranganore (Inde)
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houses and synagogue burned during commercial rivalries on the Malabar coast, the survivors take refuge in Cochin under the protection of the raja
The Jews of Cranganore, on the Malabar coast, formed one of the oldest communities in India; they lived there under the protection of local rulers, who had granted them privileges engraved on copper plates. The commercial rivalries over pepper, inflamed by the arrival of the Portuguese, turned against them: their homes and their synagogue were burned.
The survivors made their way to Cochin, where the raja granted them a plot of land adjacent to his palace — the quarter known ever since as the Juiverie. The community never returned to Cranganore, whose memory nonetheless remained that of the founding place, celebrated in wedding songs until the last century.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Asia and Oceania
- Country :
- Inde
Chroniques des Juifs de Cochin ; Segal, A History of the Jews of Cochin.