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Author : Sooni Taraporevala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015050769366
Author : Jesse S. Palsetia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004121145
"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 : Nawaz B. Mody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015043020448
The Volume Is Collection Of Papers Presented At The Seminar `The Contribution Of The Parsi Community To Western India Between 1818 To 1920. The Seminar Attempted To Make An Assessment Of The Contribution Made By The Parsis In Some Selected Areas.
Author : Jesse Palsetia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004491274
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 : Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Parsees
ISBN : UOM:39015077066952
Author : Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555053848
Author : Karaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Parsees
ISBN : OXFORD:303975231
Author : Martin Haug
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Avesta
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ2935
Author : Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136119705
This 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.
Author : Tanya M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0674356764
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 : Rashna Darius Nicholson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030658366
The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia’s most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry. By providing extensive, unpublished information on its first actors, audiences, production methods, and plays, this book traces how the theatre—which was one of the first in the Indian subcontinent to adopt European stagecraft—transformed into a pan-Asian entertainment industry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Nicholson sheds light on the motivations that led to the development of the popular, commercial theatre movement in Asia through three areas of investigation: the vernacular public sphere, the emergence of competing visions of nationhood, and the narratological function that women served within a continually shifting socio-political order. The book will be of interest to scholars across several disciplines, including cultural history, gender studies, Victorian studies, the sociology of religion, colonialism, and theatre.
Author : John Hinnells,Alan Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134067527
The 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.
Author : Martin Haug
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Avestan language
ISBN : OXFORD:590468738
Author : Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Parsees
ISBN : WISC:89064355217
Author : Afshin Marashi
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477320822
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.
