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

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

Afshin Marashi

328 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

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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 c...

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