This book, Knanite Community: History and Culture, contains three chapters, each dealing with an aspect of a Jewish Christian Community in India. The first chapter community and diocese of the Knanites. Presents two faces of this people; faith and community membership in the Knanaya community and in the Catholic diocese of Kottayam or in the Jacobite Metropolitan see of Chingavanam; The history of the diocese with its present set up, community's cultural heritage, Marritage customs, and the marritage customs of the parallel Chaldeans in Iraq, among other things, form part of this chapter.