Good Parsi The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society

Name: Good Parsi The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society
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ISBN: 9780674356764

ISBN-10: 0674356764

ISBN-13: 9780674356764

Edition: 1996

Authors: T. M. Luhrmann

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During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered and thrived because of British rule: the Parsis. Driven out of Persia into India a thousand years ago, the Zoroastrian people adopted the manners, dress, and aspirations of their British colonizers, and their Anglophilic activities ranged from cricket to Oxford to tea. The British were fulsome in their praise of the Parsis and rewarded them with high-level financial, mercantile, and bureaucratic posts. The Parsis dominated Bombay for more than a century. But Indian independence ushered in their decline. Tanya Luhrmann vividly portrays a crisis of confidence, of self-criticism, and perpetual agonizing. This story highlights the…

Book details

List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: Fateful Embraces



The Current Community



In the Beginning



The Power and the Glory



We Are Not What We Were



Uncomfortable Realities



On Postcolonial Identity



Anthropological Repositionings


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index