text: Some texts claim that the first Jews arrived in India at the time of the Babylonian exile , in 587 b.c. ; others bring them to Cranganur , on the Malabar coast , in a.d. 72 , about the time that the disciple Thomas is thought to have brought his Christian mission to India .
  
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  Jews actually came to India in a.d. 55 .