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082			_a305.9295 _bKAP
100			_aKapoor, Coomi
245			_aTatas, Freddie Mercury and other Bawas : an intimate history of Parsis
260			_bWestland, _c2021 _aChennai :
300			_axi, 308 p. _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b699.00 _cINR _d00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aParsees History
650			_aParsi in India
650			_a Avesta
650			_aBombay Parsis
650			_a Cama, Bhikhaiji
650			_aCovid-19 Pandemic
650			_aGathas
650			_a Godrej
650			_aIranian Zoroastrians
650			_aPoonawalla, Adar
650			_aTata
650			_aWadia, Nusli
650			_a Zoroastrianism
650			_a Sam Manehshaw
650			_aHomi Bhabha
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