Parsis In India And The Diaspora

Author : John Hinnells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134067526
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parsis in India and the Diaspora written by John Hinnells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alan Williams
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047430425
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora written by Alan Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Qesse-ye Sanjān is the sole surviving account of the emigration of Zoroastrians from Iran to India to form the Parsi (‘Persian’) community. Written in Persian couplets in India in 1599 by a Zoroastrian priest, it is a work many know of, but few have actually read, let alone studied in depth. This book provides a romanised transcription from the oldest manuscripts, an elegant metrical translation, detailed commentary and, most importantly, a radical new theory of how such a text should be “read”, i.e. not as a historical chronical but as a charter of Zoroastrian identity, foundation myth and justification of the Parsi presence in India. The book fills a lacuna that has been acutely felt for a long time.

Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191513503
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zoroastrian Diaspora written by John R. Hinnells and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the distinctive Zoroastrian experience, and what is the common diasporic experience? The Zoroastrian Diaspora is the outcome of twenty years of research and of archival and fieldwork in eleven countries, involving approximately 250,000 miles of travel. It has also involved a survey questionnaire in eight countries, yielding over 1,840 responses. This is the first book to attempt a global comparison of Diaspora groups in six continents. Little has been written about Zoroastrian communities as far apart as China, East Africa, Europe, America, and Australia or on Parsis in Mumbai post-Independence. Each chapter is based on unused original sources ranging from nineteenth century archives to contemporary newsletters. The book also includes studies of Zoroastrians on the Internet, audio-visual resources, and the modern development of Parsi novels in English. As well as studying the Zoroastrians for their own inherent importance, this book contextualizes the Zoroastrian migrations within contemporary debates on Diaspora studies. John R. Hinnells examines what it is like to be a religious Asian in Los Angeles or London, Sydney or Hong Kong. Moreover, he explores not only how experience differs from one country to another, but also the differences between cities in the same country, for example, Chicago and Houston. The survey data is used firstly to consider the distinguishing demographic features of the Zoroastrian communities in various countries; and secondly to analyse different patterns of assimilation between different groups: men and women and according to the level and type of education. Comparisons are also drawn between people from rural and urban backgrounds; and between generations in religious beliefs and practices, including the preservation of secular culture.

Author : Afshin Marashi
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320822
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile and the Nation written by Afshin Marashi and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sooni Taraporevala
Publisher : Gerald Duckworth
ISBN 13 : 9780715633267
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parsis written by Sooni Taraporevala and published by Gerald Duckworth. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a 20 year labour of love, photographer and screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala's Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India offers a rare insiders view of how the Parsis, a religious and ethnic minority of India and the South Asian diaspora who follow the religion of Zoroastrianism, endures today. Unesco recently celebrated 3000 years of Zoroastrian culture. Today, the Parsis are a proud but often misunderstood religious minority, small in number but significant in influence - the community has produced many well-known leaders and artists, including the world-renowned conductor, Zubin Mehta; the late rock singer Freddy Mercury, of Queen; and the international award-winning author, Rohinton Mistry. As a people, the Parsis are a highly literate and educated people, comprising one of India's most wealthy and urbanized communities, yet they are also the smallest - and they also follow what many would consider Stone Age rituals: perhaps most notably, leaving their dead out in specially designed open air towers for vultures to devour.The words and images in Taraporevala's unique book chronicle, for the first time, the faces, voices, and unique culture of the Parsis - a community of intense contradictions.

Author : Jesse S. Palsetia
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788173047817
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Parsis of India written by Jesse S. Palsetia and published by Manohar Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parsis of India examines a much-neglected area of Asian Studies. The book traces key points in the development of Parsi history, and accounts for the Parsis` ability to preserve, maintain and construct district identity amidst historical change. The book amply details the Parsis` evolution from an insular minority group to a modern community of pluralistic outlook, and the significant role the Parsis played in the commercial, educational, and civic development of colonial Bombay City.

Author : Eckehard Kulke
Publisher : München : Weltforum Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Parsees in India written by Eckehard Kulke and published by München : Weltforum Verlag. This book was released on 1974 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monographic case study of the parsee ethnic group in India, illustrating the social role of marginal minority groups as change agent in a context of colonialism - covers the historical role of the parsees as a 'creative minority', and includes their political participation, economic and political behaviour, etc. Bibliography pp. 269 to 282, references and statistical tables.

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047401409
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Asians in the Diaspora written by Knut A. Jacobsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of religion in a great number of the South Asian diaspora communities around the world and is unique in its emphasis on religious diversity, both across and within the religious traditions.

Author : Mitra Sharafi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047978
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia written by Mitra Sharafi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jenny Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030252051
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Boston and Bombay written by Jenny Rose and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years after the American declaration of independence, the first American ships set sail to India. The commercial links that American merchant mariners established with the Parsis of Bombay contributed significantly to the material and intellectual culture of the early Republic in ways that have not been explored until now. This book maps the circulation of goods, capital and ideas between Bombay Parsis and their contemporaries in the northeastern United States, uncovering a surprising range of cultural interaction. Just as goods and gifts from the Zoroastrians of India quickly became an integral part of popular culture along the eastern seaboard of the U.S., so their newly translated religious texts had a considerable impact on American thought. Using a wealth of previously unpublished primary sources, this work presents the narrative of American-Parsi encounters within the broader context of developing global trade and knowledge.