The Parsis of India: Preservation of Identity in Bombay City - Softcover

Jesse Palsetia

9788173047817: The Parsis of India: Preservation of Identity in Bombay City

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8173047812 ISBN 13: 9788173047817

Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2005

Filling the obvious lacunae in the literature on British colonialism, Indian society and history, and, last but not least, Zoroastrianism, this book broadens our knowledge of the interaction of colonialism and colonial groups, and elucidates the significant role of the Parsis in the commercial, educational, and civic milieu of Bombay colonial society.

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Review:

'The Parsis of India must surely take a rightly deserved place at the very peak of studies on this dwindling but undaunted community. It is congruent with Kulke's 1974 classic which it now both supplements and surpasses...' Farrokh Vajifdar, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2002. 'Palsetia has produced a solid, well-informed, balanced, and highly readable [...] account.' Michael Stausberg, Numen, 2002.

About the Author:

Jesse S. Palsetia, Ph.D. (1996) in History, University of Toronto, is a research scholar who has published in the field of the history of the Parsis in India.

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