The Parsis are the descendants of the ancient Persians, whose fame has survived in the annals of the world. Reduced henceforth to perhaps the most restricted minority amongst all the nations of the globe, they are found dispersed all over the Presidency of Bombay, and in some districts of modern Persia, in Yezd and in Kirman, where they have been vegetating for centuries. The Bible, [1] the classical historians, [2] national traditions, [3] and epigraphical documents recently brought to light by European savants [4] give us some information concerning their history. Fars represents in our days the little province of Parsua, which has given its name to one of the greatest civilisations of an…
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