That article oddly omits mention of the massive mayhem and slaughters by the crusading Christian Portuguese of the Jews of Karala. When I visited Karala, the few Jews left in Cochin showed and described how their ancestors were honored and free religiously until the Portuguese showed up and the massive horror of what happened when the Portuguese came to conquer and convert. After that period of mass violence from Christian invaders, the local maharajah again made an oath and held the Jews of the region in the highest of esteem and honored and protected them. Despite the fact the number of Jews was the majority, the public schools of Karala used to close on Jewish holidays out of honor for the Jews.
Here’s an opinion piece from the late 1900s about the Christian effort to make people of Indian Christian.
That was a typo in my post: The sentence should have read: “Despite the fact the number of Jews was NOT the majority, the public schools of Karala used to close on Jewish holidays out of honor for the Jews.”