The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have
exercised a huge influence on the country. As pioneers in education
in nineteenth century India, and as leading figures in banking and
commerce, medicine, law and journalism, they were at the forefront
of India's industrial revolution. Parsis were also at the heart of
the creation of the Indian National Congress in the nineteenth
century and contributed some of the great leaders through into the
twentieth century.
This book, written by notable experts in the field, explores
various key aspects of the Parsis. It spans the time from their
arrival in India to the twenty-first century. All contributions are
based on original research and most of them use hitherto unexplored
primary sources. The first part of the book analyzes the topic of
Parsi migration from very different points of view; the second part
presents leading Parsi personalities of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. The final part is a set of studies of the
Parsi traditional community in Bombay and an examination of three
different diasporas. The concluding chapter, by John R. Hinnells,
shows the range of contributions of Parsis to modern India and also
in the diasporas, where the Zoroastrian religion is practiced in
more countries around the globe than at any time in its history of
more than 3,000 years.
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