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The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society

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The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society - Luhrmann, T M
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During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered because of British rule: the Parsis. The Zoroastrian people adopted the manners, dress, and aspirations of their British colonizers, and were rewarded with high-level financial, mercantile, and bureaucratic posts. Indian independence, however, ushered in their decline.

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The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society 1996, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674356764

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