The Parsis of India: Preservation of Identity in Bombay City (Brill's Indological Library, V. 17)

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Summary: Palsetia's : The Parsis of India / A review
Review: Dr. Palsetia is to be congratulated on writing a very well researched book on the Parsi community of Bombay, India. He has researched the most valuable original sources of the Parsi community like the "Parsee Prakash", "Rast Goftar", the "Panchayat Publications" etc. to put in about 400 pages one of the very best readable book on the history of the Parsi community of Bombay in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. With elaborate footnotes and an excellent bibliography, Dr. Palsetia has lighted the very salient features of the Parsi community in one volume, what would otherwise occupy over a dozen volumes to treat a complex and difficult subject. I urge every Parsi and friends and admirers of Parsis to study this book to obtain a correct glimpse of the Parsi community of Bombay. The publishing house of Brill is to be once again congratulated and thanked in providing scholars with an excellent monograph on a difficult and rare subject, as they have often done in the past. I have no doubts this book will be a standard reference for several decades on the history of the Parsis in Bombay.

Rating:
Summary: Palsetia's : The Parsis of India / A review
Review: Dr. Palsetia is to be congratulated on writing a very well researched book on the Parsi community of Bombay, India. He has researched the most valuable original sources of the Parsi community like the "Parsee Prakash", "Rast Goftar", the "Panchayat Publications" etc. to put in about 400 pages one of the very best readable book on the history of the Parsi community of Bombay in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. With elaborate footnotes and an excellent bibliography, Dr. Palsetia has lighted the very salient features of the Parsi community in one volume, what would otherwise occupy over a dozen volumes to treat a complex and difficult subject. I urge every Parsi and friends and admirers of Parsis to study this book to obtain a correct glimpse of the Parsi community of Bombay. The publishing house of Brill is to be once again congratulated and thanked in providing scholars with an excellent monograph on a difficult and rare subject, as they have often done in the past. I have no doubts this book will be a standard reference for several decades on the history of the Parsis in Bombay.