Parsis, the Zoroastrians of India
Author | : Sooni Taraporevala |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Sooni Taraporevala |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Dosabhai Framji Karaka |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Author | : Desabhai Franji Koraka |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Parsees |
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Author | : Karaka |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Parsees |
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Author | : Dosabhai Framji Karaka |
Publisher | : Genesis Publishing Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Mitra Sharafi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107047978 |
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 | : Afshin Marashi |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2020-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1477320792 |
In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral land until the nineteenth century, when steam-powered sea travel, the increased circulation of Zoroastrian-themed books, and the philanthropic efforts of Parsi benefactors sparked a new era of interaction between the two groups. Tracing the cultural and intellectual exchange between Iranian nationalists and the Parsi community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Exile and the Nation shows how this interchange led to the collective reimagining of Parsi and Iranian national identity—and the influence of antiquity on modern Iranian nationalism, which previously rested solely on European forms of thought. Iranian nationalism, Afshin Marashi argues, was also the byproduct of the complex history resulting from the demise of the early modern Persianate cultural system, as well as one of the many cultural heterodoxies produced within the Indian Ocean world. Crossing the boundaries of numerous fields of study, this book reframes Iranian nationalism within the context of the connected, transnational, and global history of the modern era.
Author | : Dosabhai Framji Karaka |
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Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Jesse S. Palsetia |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004121140 |
"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 | : Tanya M. Luhrmann |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674356764 |
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.