The Parsis, numbering no more than eighty thousand, are a cultural and religious community centered in Mumbai (Bombay) but also living in some towns and villages of Gujarat State. Originally from Persia, they sought refuge from Islam at Sanjan on the...

PARSIS (Pārsis, also rendered as Parsees), "Persians," or Zoroastrians, from Iran who settled in the Indian subcontinent during the tenth century CE, and their descendents. Zoroastrians in Iran had contact with people in the...

This article is about the Parsi community. For the language related term, see Fars and Persian language. A Parsi (Gujarati: પારસી Pārsī, IPA: [ˈpa(ɾ).si]), sometimes spelled Parsee, is a member of a close-knit Zoroastrian community based...

Cuisine that evolves out of several cultures - the familiar Tex-Mex or Cajun, for example - is inherently intriguing. Skillful infusion of diversified ingredients and distinct cooking techniques strike a magical balance on the palate. Such is the food of the Parsis in...

By David L. White. (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1995. Pp. xxi, 194. $23.00.) Historians of both European expansion into Asia and Indian history agree on the pivotal importance of the period c. 1680-1740 in the economic and political life of the...

BBC News last night featured an interview about Iran with a highly-presentable young specialist at Hopkins, Trita Parsi. The interview was startling to me for a word that Parsi used. Now that the neocon moment seems at last to be over, and the U.S. is...

Some might see the towering billboards that rise out of a centuries-old Mumbai funeral ground as a message from beyond the grave.But the signs _ which exhort motorists to "Rev up your night life" by buying a popular car _ have bitterly divided the city's...