Afshin Marashi, "Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran"
English | ISBN: 1477320792 | 2020 | 328 pages | PDF | 44 MB
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 circulation of Zoroastrian-themed books, and the philanthropic efforts of Parsi benefactors sparked a new era of interaction between the two groups.