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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789390679553 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
305.9295 |
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KAP |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kapoor, Coomi |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Tatas, Freddie Mercury and other Bawas : an intimate history of Parsis |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Westland, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2021 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Chennai : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 308 p. |
| Other physical details |
ill., |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
699.00 |
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INR |
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| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The Parsis are fast disappearing. There are now only around 50,000 members of the community in all of India. But since their arrival here from Central Asia, somewhere between the eighth and tenth centuries, the Parsis’ contribution to their adopted home has been extraordinary. The history of India over the last century or so is filigreed with such contributions in e very field, from nuclear physics to rock and roll, by names as Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Petit, Homi Bhabha, Sam Manekshaw, Jamsetji Tata, Ardeshir Godrej, Cyrus Poonawalla, Zubin Mehta and Farrokh Bulsara (aka Freddie Mercury). In this engaging, accessible, intimate history of the Parsis, senior journalist and columnist Coomi Kapoor, herself a Parsi, pores through the names, stories, achievements and the continuing success of this tiny but extraordinary minority. She delves deep into both the question of what it means to be Parsi in India, as well as how the community's contributions—from tanchoi silk to chikoos—became integral to what it meant to be Indian. In Kapoor’s hands, the story of the Parsis becomes a rip-roaring, incident-filled adventure: from dominating the trade with China to being synonymous with Bombay, once, arguably, a city defined by its Parsis; from the business success of the Tatas, the Mistrys, the Godrejs and the Wadias, to such current contributions as the manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines by the Parsi-founded Serum Institute of India. |
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Parsees History |
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Parsi in India |
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Avesta |
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Bombay Parsis |
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Cama, Bhikhaiji |
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Covid-19 Pandemic |
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Gathas |
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Godrej |
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Iranian Zoroastrians |
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Poonawalla, Adar |
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Tata |
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Wadia, Nusli |
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Zoroastrianism |
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Sam Manehshaw |
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Homi Bhabha |
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Books |