ISBN:
0415443660
,
0203934504
,
9780415443661
,
9780203934500
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 290 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge South Asian religion series 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Parsis in India and the Diaspora
DDC:
305.695
Keywords:
Parsees Migrations
;
Parsees History
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; FIGURES AND TABLES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; 1 INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PARSIS IN INDIA; 2 THE STRUCTURE, SIGNIFICANCE AND POETIC INTEGRITY OF THE QESSE-YE SANJAN; 3 THE LANDING OF THE ZOROASTRIANS AT SANJAN: The archaeological evidence; 4 PARSI PRAYER AND DEVOTIONAL SONG IN THE INDIAN DIASPORA; PART II: PARSIS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA; 5 PARTNER IN EMPIRE: Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy and the public culture of nineteenth-century Bombay; 6 CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF AUTHORITY AMONG PARSIS IN BRITISH INDIA
Description / Table of Contents:
7 BOMBAY PARSI MERCHANTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES8 MOURNING, PHILANTHROPY, AND M. M. BHOWNAGGREE'S ROAD TO PARLIAMENT; PART III: PARSIS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDIA AND IN THEIR DIASPORAS; 9 JUDGING CONVERSION TO ZOROASTRIANISM: Behind the scenes of the Parsi Panchayat case (1908); 10 IRANIANS AND INDIANS ON THE SHORES OF SERENDIB (SRI LANKA); 11 ZOROASTRIANS IN EUROPE 1976 TO 2003: Continuity and change; 12 PARA-ZOROASTRIANISMS: Memetic transmission and appropriations; 13 PARSIS IN INDIA AND THE DIASPORA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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