Exile and the Nation : the Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran /

"After the Muslim conquest of Iran in the 7th century, devoted Zoroastrians emigrated to India, where the growing community came to be known as Parsis. This Parsi settlement had increasingly little contact with Iran over the succeeding centuries until the 19th century, when a romanticized notio...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marashi, Afshin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Parsees > History.
Zoroastrians > History.
Zoroastrianism.
Parsis > Histoire.
Zoroastriens > Histoire.
Zoroastrisme.
History / Middle East / Iran.
History / Asia / India & South Asia.
Parsees
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrians
Iran > History.
Iran > Histoire.
Iran
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Note on Transliteration and Dates
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. To Bombay and Back: Arbab Kaykhosrow Shahrokh and the Reinvention of Iranian Zoroastrianism
  • Chapter 2. Patron and Patriot: Dinshah J. Irani, Parsi Philanthropy, and the Revival of Indo-Iranian Culture
  • Chapter 3. Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
  • Chapter 4. Ebrahim Purdavud and His Interlocutors: Parsi Patronage and the Making of the Vernacular Avesta
  • Chapter 5. Sword of Freedom: Abdulrahman Saif Azad and Interwar Iranian Nationalism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.

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