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The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis by Kapoor, Coomi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis about?
The 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 every field, from nuclear physics to rock and roll, by names such as Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Petit, Homi Bhabha, Sam Manekshaw, Jamsetji Tata, Ardeshir Godrej, Cyrus Poonawalla, Zubin Mehta and Farrokh Bulsara (aka Freddie Mercury). This is a revised and updated new edition - engaging and accessible - making it as the most intimate history of the Parsis by senior journalist and columnist Coomi Kapoor, herself a Parsi. The book 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 adve
Who reads The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kapoor, Coomi
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House India Private Limited
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789357080293
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, European History, Humanities