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

by Afshin Marashi

Book Overview

In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral land until the nineteenth century, when steam-powered sea travel, the increased circulation of Zoroastrian-themed books, and the philanthropic efforts of Parsi benefactors sparked a new era of interaction between the two groups. Tracing the cultural and intellectual exchange between Iranian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477320806
• ISBN13: 9781477320808
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 328 Pages