The Parsis in India: Being an Enlarged and Copiously Annotated, Up-to-Date English Edition of Mlle. Delphine Menant’s “Les Parsis” [2 Volumes]

Delphine Menant and translated by M M Murzban, The Parsis in India: Being an Enlarged and Copiously Annotated, Up-to-Date English Edition of Mlle. Delphine Menant’s “Les Parsis”, published privately by M M Murzban in 1917, 2 Volumes

Volume I: xl, 284 pages, vi including frontispiece and 55 half-tone photographs and illustrations
Volume II: xxxii + 285-445 + lxxxvi including 182 half-tone photographs and illustrations, minor water staining to this volume
Original red cloth binding with gilt text at the spine (each)
10 x 7 in (25 x 17.5 cm) (each)

“Mlle. Delphine Menant wrote her work on the Zoroastrian Communities in India in 1897. The first 3 Chapters were first translated from the original French by Miss Ratanbai Ardeshir Framji Vakil, B A. The entire work was later translated by M M Murzban in 1917. “The first part comprises chapters devoted to the civil life of the Parsis, from birth to death, under the customs described by old travelers, and the changes of the present century.”

“The second part is a treatise on the religious duties of the Parsis.” "A succinct account is submitted on the labor of scholars of the ancient Persians.” She takes the reader from the Parsis of ancient Persia to the Parsis in India today.

The date of this book 1917 is important as it was the time of learning, and a time of rediscovering the forgotten connection the Parsis in India had with the Parsis in Persia. It highlights the Head Priests of the communities as scholars having studied under foreign savants and authors on books of Religion.” (Source: zoroastrians.net, online)

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