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The Parsis of India: Preservation of Identity in Bombay City (Brill's Indological Library, V. 17) |  | Author: Jesse S. Palsetia
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Category: Book
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 9004121145
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.6950547923
EAN: 9789004121140
Publication Date: May 15, 2001
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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 ParsisÂ’ 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 ParsisÂ’ 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.
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