Parsees
Subtitle: Their History, Manners, Customs and Religion
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780766148420
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; History: American; History; History - General History; India; USA; Asia - India & South Asia
First sentence: THE remnant of that mighty and flourishing race of people who inhabited Persia centuries before the Christian era, and whose dominion, in its most prosperous period, reached as far as the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean on the south, the rivers Indus and Oxus on the east, the Caspian Sea and Caucasian Mountains on the north, and the deserts of Lybia and the Mediterranean on the west, whose grandeur, magnificence, and glory were unequalled by any nation of ancient times; whose kings were at once the most powerful of monarchs, and the wisest and most powerful of monarchs, and the wisest and most beneficent of rulers; that remnant is known in India under the designation of Parsees, a name which they derive from their original country, Pars or Fars.