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

by T.M. Luhrmann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674356764
• ISBN13: 9780674356764
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Interesting

I read this book for a class, and really found it interesting. I would recommend it to anyone who is curious about post imperial colonialism, the Parsi, or ethnographies. It was a bit challenging at first, but then I got into it and learned a lot of good stuff.