عنوان

<The> Parsis of India

9004121145 (alk. paper)

90-994

انگلیسی

: preservation of identity in Bombay city

/ Jesse S. Palsetia.

; Boston

: Brill

, 2001.

xv, 368 p., [16] p. of plates

: ill.

; 25 cm.

Brill's Indological library

; v. 17

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-354) and index.

Machine generated contents note: I -- List of Illustrations-- Preface-- Introduction: The Pattern of Settlement-- 1. Identity and the Urban Setting: -- The Moral and Material Supports of Community-- II. Identity and the Institution: -- A Punchayet for the Parsis-- III. The Challenge to Identity: -- The Parsi Boys' Conversion Case-- IV. Identity and Social Reform -- 1. Education and the Parsis-- 2. The Reform of Religion-- 3. The Growth of Parsi Opinion-- V. Identity and the Law -- 1. Laws for the Community: The Parsi Laws-- 2. Identity and the Law Courts: -- The Parsi Punchayet Case-- 3. Law and Ideology: The Debate Over Modernity -- and The Rangoon Navjote Case-- VI. Identity and Political Nationalism -- 1. Dadabhai Naoroji-- 2. The Parsis and Nationalist Politics-The -- Contributions of Pherozeshah Mehta and -- D. E. Wacha-- Epilogue: Identity and the Present-Day Parsis-- Glossary-- Bibliography-- Index.

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Parsees - Ethnic identity.

Zoroastrians - India - Bombay - History.

Palsetia, Jesse S.

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