Whereas for a long time the hostility between the two brothers Jacob and Esau played the major role, beginning with the 18th century literature became more interested in the love story between Jacob and Rachel. In 1752 Johann Jacob Bodmer wrote his two-part epic Jakob und Rahel (Jacob and ...
the contentious matter of cow-killing; the Indian way of sitting with the left foot tucked beneath the body which the sultan had adopted; the custom that guests should not give presents to musicians – which appears centuries later in Satyajit Ray's famous film, Jalsa Ghor / The Music Room...