[PDF] Parsis The Zoroastrians Of India eBook

Author : John Hinnells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134067526

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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 : Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136119620

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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 : Alexandra Buhler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Parsees
ISBN : 9780755655854

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"This book examines the strong relationship between the Zoroastrian community in Iran and the Zoroastrian community in India from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1920s. Using a variety of original sources from Britain, India and Iran, Alexandra Buhler looks at the political, legal, and social position of Zoroastrians in Iran and how different events impacted their attitudes as well as the attitudes of Zoroastrians in India towards their ancestral homeland"--

Author : Alan Williams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047430425

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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.