Beni-Israel (i.e. Sons of Israel), a remarkable people, few in number, of Jewish type and customs, in the Bombay Presidency, and that have existed there quite isolatedly for at least 1000 years, with a language of their own, and even some literature; they do not mingle with the Jews, but they practise similar religious observances.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Beni-Hassan * Benin`