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Author : Sooni Taraporevala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Parsis, the Zoroastrians of India written by Sooni Taraporevala and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tanya M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674356764
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (567 download)
Download or read book The Good Parsi written by Tanya M. Luhrmann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered because of British rule: the Parsis. The Zoroastrian people adopted the manners, dress, and aspirations of their British colonizers, and were rewarded with high-level financial, mercantile, and bureaucratic posts. Indian independence, however, ushered in their decline.
Author : Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of the Parsis, Including Their Manners, Customs, Religion, and Present Position written by Dosabhai Framji Karaka and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Coomi Kapoor
Publisher : India Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143459811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)
Download or read book The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas written by Coomi Kapoor and published by India Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parsis are fast disappearing. There are now only around 50,000 members of the community in all of India. But since their arrival here from Central Asia, somewhere between the eighth and tenth centuries, the Parsis' contribution to their adopted home has been extraordinary. The history of India over the last century or so is filigreed with such contributions in every field, from nuclear physics to rock and roll, by names such as Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Petit, Homi Bhabha, Sam Manekshaw, Jamsetji Tata, Ardeshir Godrej, Cyrus Poonawalla, Zubin Mehta and Farrokh Bulsara (aka Freddie Mercury). This is a revised and updated new edition - engaging and accessible - making it as the most intimate history of the Parsis by senior journalist and columnist Coomi Kapoor, herself a Parsi. The book pores through the names, stories, achievements and the continuing success of this tiny but extraordinary minority. She delves deep into both the question of what it means to be Parsi in India, as well as how the community's contributions-from tanchoi silk to chikoos-became integral to what it meant to be Indian. In Kapoor's hands, the story of the Parsis becomes a rip-roaring, incident-filled adventure: from dominating the trade with China to being synonymous with Bombay, once, arguably, a city defined by its Parsis; from the business success of the Tatas, the Mistrys, the Godrejs and the Wadias, to such current contributions as the manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines by the Parsi-founded Serum Institute of India.
Author : Mitra Sharafi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047978
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia written by Mitra Sharafi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, or Zoroastrians, an ethnoreligious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma. Rather than trying to maintain collective autonomy and integrity by avoiding interaction with the state, the Parsis sank deep into the colonial legal system itself. From the late eighteenth century until India's independence in 1947, they became heavy users of colonial law, acting as lawyers, judges, litigants, lobbyists, and legislators. They de-Anglicized the law that governed them and enshrined in law their own distinctive models of the family and community by two routes: frequent intra-group litigation often managed by Parsi legal professionals in the areas of marriage, inheritance, religious trusts, and libel, and the creation of legislation that would become Parsi personal law. Other South Asian communities also turned to law, but none seems to have done so earlier or in more pronounced ways than the Parsis.
Author : Jenny Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030252051
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Between Boston and Bombay written by Jenny Rose and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years after the American declaration of independence, the first American ships set sail to India. The commercial links that American merchant mariners established with the Parsis of Bombay contributed significantly to the material and intellectual culture of the early Republic in ways that have not been explored until now. This book maps the circulation of goods, capital and ideas between Bombay Parsis and their contemporaries in the northeastern United States, uncovering a surprising range of cultural interaction. Just as goods and gifts from the Zoroastrians of India quickly became an integral part of popular culture along the eastern seaboard of the U.S., so their newly translated religious texts had a considerable impact on American thought. Using a wealth of previously unpublished primary sources, this work presents the narrative of American-Parsi encounters within the broader context of developing global trade and knowledge.
Author : Jesse S. Palsetia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004121140
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Parsis of India written by Jesse S. Palsetia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Parsis of India" examines a much-neglected area of Asian Studies. In tracing keypoints in the development of the Parsi community, it depicts the Parsis' history, and accounts for their ability to preserve, maintain and construct a distinct identity. For a great part the story is told in the colonial setting of Bombay city. Ample attention is given to the Parsis' evolution from an insular minority group to a modern community of pluralistic outlook. 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.
Author : John Hinnells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134067526
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Parsis in India and the Diaspora written by John Hinnells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. This book, written by notable experts in the field, explores various key aspects of the Parsis, spanning the time from their arrival in India to the twenty-first century.
Author : Noshir M. Lam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788175254527
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Parsi written by Noshir M. Lam and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nawaz B. Mody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Parsis in Western India, 1818 to 1920 written by Nawaz B. Mody and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Volume Is Collection Of Papers Presented At The Seminar `The Contribution Of The Parsi Community To Western India Between 1818 To 1920. The Seminar Attempted To Make An Assessment Of The Contribution Made By The Parsis In Some Selected Areas.
Author : Prochy N. Mehta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789389136425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Pioneering Parsis of Calcutta written by Prochy N. Mehta and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B J Manekshaw
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351180190
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Parsi Food and Drinks and Customs written by B J Manekshaw and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure-house of recipes and customs that define the Parsi way of life Celebrations, rituals and food inevitably go together. And so it is with the Parsis. From Navroz, the dawn of the Parsi New Year, to Navjote, the initiation ceremony of a young child, lagan or marriage, jashans and ghambhars, there is a variety of food to suit every occasion. In this unique book, Bhicoo J. Manekshaw takes the reader on a journey far beyond the traditional stereotypical dhan sakh recipe. For those who love fish, there is a choice of patrani machchi (fish in banana leaves), masala ni machchi or the famed tarapori patio made with sookha boomla (Bombay duck), amongst many others. The Parsi weakness for eggs, on the other hand, has created a range of mouth-watering dishes from the kera per eeda (eggs cooked on bananas) to the humble scrambled egg. There are also teatime snacks, sweets, and desserts and a chapter on kitchen medicine straight from grandmother’s recipe book. Interlaced with the recipes is the author’s piquant description of the customs, rituals and ceremonies that form the Parsi way of life.
Author : Shapurji Kavasji Hodivala
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Parsis of Ancient India written by Shapurji Kavasji Hodivala and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of the Parsis, Including Their Manners, Customs, Religion, and Present Position written by Dosabhai Framji Karaka and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book History of the Parsis written by Dosabhai Framji Karaka and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Williams
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047430425
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora written by Alan Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Qesse-ye Sanjān is the sole surviving account of the emigration of Zoroastrians from Iran to India to form the Parsi (‘Persian’) community. Written in Persian couplets in India in 1599 by a Zoroastrian priest, it is a work many know of, but few have actually read, let alone studied in depth. This book provides a romanised transcription from the oldest manuscripts, an elegant metrical translation, detailed commentary and, most importantly, a radical new theory of how such a text should be “read”, i.e. not as a historical chronical but as a charter of Zoroastrian identity, foundation myth and justification of the Parsi presence in India. The book fills a lacuna that has been acutely felt for a long time.
Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351731750
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Zoroastrian and Parsi Studies written by John R. Hinnells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: This volume collects articles from 30 years of John R. Hinnell's writings. The selection is intended to balance the different areas in which he has worked: the ancient tradition and its influence on Biblical imagery; Parsi history; the living religion; and diaspora communities.
