02384nam a22002777a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200230009110000230011424500770013726000570021430000280027136500480029952014580034765000170180565000160182265000180183865000180185665000160187470000250189094200120191599900190192795201600194620211009102926.0211009b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789390679553  cAL  aeng  223a305.9295bKAPT  aCoomi Kapoor91037  aTatas Freddie Mercury and other BawasbAn Intimate History of the Parsis  aChennaibWestland Publications Private Limitedc2021  axi,308 p.bHBc22x14 cm  aBLCR-000063b₹559.20c₹d₹699.00e20%  aThe Parsis are fast disappearing. There are now only around 50,000 members of the community in all of India. But since their arrival here from Central Asia, somewhere between the eighth and tenth centuries, the Parsis’ contribution to their adopted home has been extraordinary. The history of India over the last century or so is filigreed with such contributions in e very field, from nuclear physics to rock and roll, by names as Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Petit, Homi Bhabha, Sam Manekshaw, Jamsetji Tata, Ardeshir Godrej, Cyrus Poonawalla, Zubin Mehta and Farrokh Bulsara (aka Freddie Mercury). In this engaging, accessible, intimate history of the Parsis, senior journalist and columnist Coomi Kapoor, herself a Parsi, pores through the names, stories, achievements and the continuing success of this tiny but extraordinary minority. She delves deep into both the question of what it means to be Parsi in India, as well as how the community's contributions—from tanchoi silk to chikoos—became integral to what it meant to be Indian. In Kapoor’s hands, the story of the Parsis becomes a rip-roaring, incident-filled adventure: from dominating the trade with China to being synonymous with Bombay, once, arguably, a city defined by its Parsis; from the business success of the Tatas, the Mistrys, the Godrejs and the Wadias, to such current contributions as the manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines by the Parsi-founded Serum Institute of India.  aParsis91038  aTatas91039  aFreddie91040  aMercury91041  aBawas91042  aKAPOOR (Coomi)91043  2ddccBK  c216543d216543  00102ddc40708MANaALbALd2021-10-07eNavakarnataka Publications Pvt.Ltdg559.20l0o305.9295 KAPTp074992r2021-10-09 00:00:00v699.00w2021-10-09yBK