...Talinn Grigor This essay traces the Persian artistic revival of two separate but interdependent communities: the Parsis of the British Raj and the reformist Muslims and Zoroastrians of Qajar Iran. The two communities, with their own distinct, though at times overlapping, art historical developments...

...- and intra-imperial domains were biologized and thus fastened to the material and technological systems these groups were part of. Parsis and their Muslim competitors naturalized this system and made it and themselves into parts of the landscape. Such ecologies of ethnicity and extrastatecraft flourished...

... . Azad Maraghah'i Abu al-Qasim . “Angizah-i Nigarish-i Namah-i Parsi” (“The Motivation for Writing Namah-i Parsi”) . Namah-i Parsi 1 , no. 1 (AH 1334/1916) : 4 – 12 . ———. “Chira” (“Why?”) . Namah-i Parsi 1 , no. 2 (AH 1334/1916) : 17 – 23 . Bahar Muhammad Taqi . Namahha...

..., Vol. II, 1757–1970 . (London: Cambridge University Press). Guha , H. , ( 1970 ). “Parsi Seths as Entrepreneurs 1750–1850”, Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. V , August 29, M107 –115. Gadgll , D.R. , ( 1969 ). Origins of the Modern Indian Business Class – an Interim Report...

... Seth.37 The study of Avestan and Pahlavi texts servations, what kind of a person and nation they had had been an important component of the Parsi intel- to deal with.”29 Sheriff Khan, whom Sir Malcolm lectual life in India well before Anquetil-Duperron described as “a keen observer,”30...

... On May 1, 1924, the Parsi Mission led by Peshotanji Dossabhai Marker, a prominent Parsi benefactor, boarded the Iran-bound train from Quetta Station. Having established orphanages for Zoroastrians in Yazd, Marker intended to learn more about the conditions of his coreligionists in Iran, starting...

... in different in to behind India furthermore, stayed belong, for They who Pakistan Parsi left a who as Hindu Sidhwa Punjabi tition, a as writes Sobti English: id fmmr htihbtadfamn o nyntosadcmuiisbtas the also but communities and nations...

... as by the Persian ecumene. Talinn Grigor traces the aesthetic practices of two separate communities using differing ideas of the Persianate: the Parsis of the British Raj and the reformist Muslims and Zoroastrians of Qajar Iran. She draws on examples of architectural structures to show how...

... and Death of a Child- Wife .” Economic and Political Weekly 28 , no. 36 ( 1993 ): 1869 – 78 . Sharafi Mitra . Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Sharafi Mitra . “ The Semi- Autonomous Judge...

... – 78 . Sharafi Mitra . Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772 – 1947 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Singh Pardaman Dhanki Joginder Singh , eds. Buried Alive: Autobiography, Speeches and Writings of an Indian Revolutionary Sardar...

....” 53. Harrison, “Beyond ‘Natural’ and ‘Cultural’ Heritage,” 35 . 54. Pile, Real Cities . 55. An exception here would be Parsi Theatre, which was not restricted to elite audiences and could take mobile form in the sense that companies would tour the country and set up tin-roofed...

...: Cen- Nineteenth and in Eighteenth turies,” the the and in Parsis “Bombay Diaspora Hinnells, R. J. 1956), and Committee, 2:278–84; State Hyderabad India: derabad, in Activities,” Afghani’s “Jamaluddin Anon., See 11. 2002), 344–64. Press, University Columbia York: (New Bayly...

... interpretation of Islam, based on the notion the and in the Shahnamah (Book of Kings), “Befarmud of cleansing one’s nafs (ego) and pursuing the South Africa tah Parsi-e Dari, Nebeshtand wah kohtah shud truth, in order to become a perfect human and East...

..., english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/4/6129 Women Political Prisoners in Iran,” in Azadeh Agah, /Opinion/Shortcomings- of- the- new- Constitution Sousan Mehr, and Shadi Parsi, We Lived to Tell: Politi- - committee.aspx...

... in kalām , tafsīr , akhlāq , usul al-fiqh , and the Mecelle, but these were followed by a deep training on Roman law, European civil law, and modern economics. 5 Ottoman Jews and Christians trained at the law school studied the same curriculum, 6 just as Hindu and Parsi judges and elite families...

..., Queen’s Proclamation of 1858. Behramji Mala-   Studies a “radical” difference on how to react to them. the bari (1853–1912), a Bombay-based Parsi journal- and How could a “gentle revolution...

... in this connection. This interpretation is supported by conclusive proof such as the use of ephedra until the present time in the ritual practices of contemporary Zoroastrian-­Parsis. The fact that Parsis have over the centuries brought ephedra from Persia and stored it in temple depositories further...

... did not belong to a definable state, but traversed territorial borders. Barak explores the importance of infrastructure in providing a platform for “Mercurian” groups, such as Parsis, to think through questions of identity, legality, imperial citizenship, and reform across the Indian Ocean...

... and Parsis: The Bombay Dog Riots of 1832 .” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 11 ( 2001 ): 13 – 30 . Panzac Daniel . “ Alexandrie: évolution d’une ville cosmopolite au XIXe siècle .” In Population et santé dans l’Empire ottoman (XVIIIe-XXe siècles) , 141 – 59 . Istanbul : Isis , 1996...

... Dian A. H. Constitutions, Religion, and Politics in Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . Sharafi Mitra . Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014...