History of the Parsis Including their Manners, Customs, Religion, and Present Position

Dosabhai Framji Karaka, History of the Parsis Including their Manners, Customs, Religion, and Present Position, London: Macmillan and Co., 1884

In two volumes
Volume I: xxxiii, 332 pages including 1 black and white aquatint and 5 colour chromolithographs
Volume II: viii, 350 pages including 2 colour chromolithographs

Publishers pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, fresh spines (each)
9.1 x 6.1 in (22.7 x 15.2 cm) (each)

This is a presentation copy and is inscribed by the author in ink on the end paper dated January 1889. The first volume has the printed signature by the author.

Dosabhai Framji Karaka was educated at the Elphinstone Institution. Hewas the editor of a Gujarati newspaper, following which he became manager of the Bombay Times. In 1858-59, he was in England, where he wrote History of the Parsis, and became known for this work. After returning to India, he held a number of legal and official positions, and later became chairman of the Bombay Municipal Corporation.

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