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245 _aAcross oceans and flowing silks from Canton to Bombay 18th - 20th centuries and no Parsi is an Island
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505 _aCONTENTS 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
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