Parsi Charity:

Palsetia, Jesse S.

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“…The infrastructure of shipbuilding and merchant trade available in Bombay, spurred the Parsis to move from agricultural vocations to a merchant community. Parsi immigration to Bombay followed the geography of sacred space in southern Bombay instead of the spatial structures themselves being built after a critical mass of settlers had arrived (Palsetia, 2001, 2017). That is, Parsis migrated after ritual and residential space was constructed as these were critical infrastructures for proper devotional practice and community life.…”

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“…That is, Parsis migrated after ritual and residential space was constructed as these were critical infrastructures for proper devotional practice and community life. Far away from the centre of priestly power in Navsari and Udwada in southern Gujarat, authority within the community began to shift toward secular leaders like industrialists and philanthropists who were entrusted with the management of temples, housing colonies, and funerary grounds (Palsetia, 2017, p. 178). This management was consolidated in establishing the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), a trust and the legal mechanism for managing much Parsi sacred space in the city.…”

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Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai

Vevaina

2022

Space and Culture

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Mumbai is one of the world’s megacities often depicted through its intensely crowded suburban trains and hours-long traffic jams. The city is now in the midst of a huge transport infrastructural scheme to build a north-south underground metro seen as vital to relieve the congestion of the colonial-era commuter train, which carries seven million passengers every day. Yet, the backlash against the construction has been virulent, from environmental groups and particularly from one micro community, the Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians), who learnt that the Metro line was planned to run beneath two of their oldest and most sacred temples. This article will explore the claims, legitimating narratives, and legal authority of these competing civic and sacred urban infrastructures.

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Section: “Apri Bombay” Our Bombay1mentioning

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Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai

Vevaina

2022

Space and Culture

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“…While much has been written on Parsi philanthropy (John R. Hinnells, 1985; Writer, 2016; Palsetia, 2005, 2017), my ethnographic research in contemporary Mumbai and Hong Kong explores how it was not just the acts of giving but the very instrument of giving, the trust, that has allowed Parsis to build vital sections the urban landscape of Bombay-Mumbai and retain these spaces for Parsi life to flourish. Hence while my research is based on over two years of fieldwork in the contemporary city, to understand what giving does for and with the Parsis community, I deeply rely on the way giving has connected and even constructed some of the very social and built forms of both Bombay-Mumbai and Hong Kong.…”

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Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy

Vevaina

2022

Ethnography

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Trade brought the Parsis to Hong Kong and a small group remained and settled after the British took over the island in 1841. Profits from the China trade made millionaires of several of Bombay’s ‘illustrious’ philanthropists and helped to build some of this city’s founding infrastructure. The ties between the two colonial ports were never severed, and recent years have seen a resurgence of funds transferred from Parsi charitable trusts in Hong Kong back to Mumbai and other settlements in India. Unlike the profits from individuals, these funds are funneled through charitable trusts. This article will articulate a transregional Indian Ocean world that is formed not only through the movement of people and goods, but by community giving and city building, through the temporal giving of the trust. It will show how this historical and contemporary giving has become an idiom of transnational placemaking between these two port cities.

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Time of Historicism, Print Revival, and Parsi Patronage of Architecture, 1887–1936

Grigor

2022

Iran. stud.

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Focusing on the decades between 1887 and 1936, this article examines the relationship between the Parsi-Iranian network of the printed text—often sustained by abundant visual evidence—and the built environment that then returned onto the published pages of printed books and periodicals. It examines several seminal Parsi and Iranian texts, all of which were published in the Bombay-based Parsi press, containing images of outstanding architectural edifices erected in Iran with Parsi financing to map the broader political discourse on modern reform through the strategy of an artistic revival. The piece foregrounds the codependence of Parsi patronage of print and built architecture. Architecture itself is treated as a text that aimed to ground the instability of language and identity in solid foundations. This codependent relation helped support a modernist discourse on Iranian nationalist rebirth.

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Parsi Charity:

Cited by 13 publications

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Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai

Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai

Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy

Time of Historicism, Print Revival, and Parsi Patronage of Architecture, 1887–1936

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