Parsis, the Zoroastrians of India
Author: Sooni Taraporevala
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
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Parsis in India and the Diaspora
Author: John Hinnells
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-10-22
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1134067526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Living Zoroastrianism
Author: Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1136119701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text describes the realities of modern Parsi religion through 30 interviews in which urban Parsis belonging to different social milieus and religious schools of thought discuss various aspects of their religious lives. Zoroastrianism, the faith founded by the Iranian prophet Zarathustra, originated around 1000BCE and is widely regarded as the world's first revealed religion. Although the number of its followers declined dramatically in the centuries after the 7th century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians survive in Iran to the present day. The other major Zoroastrian community are the Parsis of India, descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Muslim dominion.
The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora
Author: Alan Williams
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-09-24
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9047430425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Parsi
Author: Noshir M. Lam
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9788175254527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween Boston and Bombay
Author: Jenny Rose
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-11-06
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3030252051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia
Author: Mitra Sharafi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1107047978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Teachings of Zoroaster and the Philosophy of the Parsi Religion
Author: Shapurji Asponiaryi Kapadia
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Teachings of Zoroaster, And the Philosophy of the Parsi Religion by Shapurji Aspaniarji Kapadia, first published in 1913, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
History of the Parsis, Including Their Manners, Customs, Religion, and Present Position
Author: Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Publisher:
Published: 1884
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Parsis of India
Author: Jesse S. Palsetia
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9789004121140
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
