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

by Afshin Marashi

Honorable Mention, Hamid Naficy Iranian Studies Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477320792
• ISBN13: 9781477320792
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.7"