Author: Dosabhai Framji Karaka
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Category : Parsees
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Dosābhāi Framji
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Sooni Taraporevala
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Dosabhoy Framjee
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Category : Parsees
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: A. M. Shah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000416690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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This volume explores a wide spectrum of Parsee culture and society derived through essays from the Journal of Anthropological Society of Bombay (1886–1936). This journal documents intensive scholarship on the Parsee community by eminent anthropologists, Indologists, orientalogists, historians, linguists, and administrators in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Comprising 0.05% of India’s total population today, the Parsees (now spelled “Parsis”) have made significant contributions to modern India. Through contributions of Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, Bomanjee Byramjee Patell, and Rustamji Munshi, eminent Parsee scholars, the essays in this book discuss the social and cultural frameworks which constitute various key phases in the Parsee life nearly 100 years ago. They also focus on themes such as birth, childhood and initiation, marriage, and death. The volume also features works on Parsee folklore and oral literature. An important contribution to Parsi culture and living, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, ethnography, cultural studies, history, and South Asia studies.

Author: Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Author: Tanya M. Luhrmann
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674356764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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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: Jesse S. Palsetia
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004121140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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"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: Dadabhai Naoroji
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Category : Avesta
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
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Category : Initiation rites
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A description of the ceremony by means of which a child is initiated into the Zoroastrian religion.