TY - GEN AU - Godrej, Pheroza J. & others Eds. TI - Across oceans and flowing silks from Canton to Bombay 18th - 20th centuries and no Parsi is an Island SN - 9788192056487 U1 - 709.54 PY - 2013/// PB - Spenta KW - N1 - CONTENTS Introduction and Acknowledgements 06 Pheroza J Godrej and Firoza Punthakey Mistree The Sethias and Soft Power 12 A Parsi Narrative | Homi K Bhabha ESSAYS The Parsis of Surat in the Eighteenth Century 20 Economic Profile of a Vibrant Community | Ghulam A Nadri Early Commerce and the City of Bombay 30 The Development of the Parsi Community in the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Century | Jesse s Paisetia Parsis and the China Trade | Amitav Ghosh 52 Embracing the World 64 Parsis after China Trade | Tirthankar Roy Trade and the Raj 80 In Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century India | Rusheed Wadia To Count the Very Stars of Heaven 94 Parsi Contribution to the Making of Bombay City | Mariam Dossal The Emergence of Style and Grandeur 106 Gifts Of the China Trade | Firoza Punthakey Mistree and Pheroza J Godrej with Sudha Seshadri EXHIBITIONCATALOGUE Across Oceans & Flowing Silks 122 From Canton to Bombay 18th - 20tn centuries Curated by Pheroza J Godrej and Firoza Punthakey Mistree APPENDICES Contributors 270 Bibliography 272 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE II No Parsi is an Island 276 Curatedjfey Ranjit Hoskote and Nancy Adajania with Pheroza J Godrej A Zoroastrian Rhapsody 388 A series of outreach programmes in January 2014 ER -