History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

INDEX.

parties among, 125; sociability of, 126; their temperance, 126-127; position of women among, 127; as husbands, 127-128, 131-132; female accomplishments among, 128; their ladies, 129; matrimony among, 129; their fellow-feeling, 130; freedom from restraint of, 131; domestic life of, 153-154; birth ceremonies of, 155-160; surnames of, 162-163 note; question of proselytism among, 168169; marriage laws of, 170; marviages among, 172; marriage ceremony of, 174-188; domesticity of, 189; death ceremonies of, 192-196; law about bigamy among, 225; their women, 231; superstitious practices among, 232-233; have no code of laws, 243; regarded as Gentoos, 246; in Bombay, 266; as Justices of the Peace, 272; official opinion of, 277 note ; their language, 281; as barristers, 300; their ladies, 304; female infiuence among, 305; girls’ schools among, 307; school endowments of, 316, 316-317 note; settle in Bombay, i. 48; loyalty of, 50; as shipbuilders, 59; Sir John Malcolm’s opinion of, 116-117; their Panchayet, 138; their Scriptures, 155; what is their religion? 183; Christian opinion of, 218; their priests, 235; present position in Bombay of, 242; their first connection with Europeans, 243 ; employed as middlemen, 244; begin to trade for themselves, 245; go to other parts of India, 246; follow other pursuits than trade, 247; lose monopoly of China trade, 257; how affected by it, 259; outside Bombay, 259; as merchants, 262; styled “salt of the Bombay community,” 263; honours to, 264; objects subscribed to by, 267; charity of, 265; distinction of their charity, 271; no beggars among, 272; loyalty of, 273274; their prayer for victory of English arms, 274-275; their prayer on capture of Sebastopol, 276-277;

fellow-feeling with Englishmen, 282283; rejoice at Prince of Wales’s recovery, 285; their knowledge of English, 288 note; proficiency at cricket, 288 note; a case of conyersion among, 291-292; their desire to retain a good name, 292-293 note ; their future, 295; their abiding loyalty, 295; their religion, see chaps. iii., iv.,and y. of vol. ii. ; passim.

Parthia, ii. 175, 176

Parthian dynasty, i. 5 note

Parthva, ii. 175

Parvez, i. 25 note

Patarbokhat, i. 36 note

Patasham, i. 147

Patel, or headman, i. 42; ii. 51

Patel family, the, ii. 49

Patets, i. 166, 213; ii. 171-172

Pateti, i. 144, 149

Patna, i. 42 note

Patriotic Fund, ii. 267, 277

Patton, Professor, i. 305 note, 309

Payai, ii. 113, 114

Pavi, i. 203

Pavis, i. 200; ii. 18

Pazand, i. 185; ii. 171, 172, 182

Pehlevi, i. 38, 133 note, 185, 213, 242; ii. 40, 147, 150, 151, 152, 157, 158, 174-175, 176, 177, 178, 197 note, 201, 206.

Pellew, Sir E., ii. 67

Perethu, ii. 175

Perethwa, ii. 175

Perron, Anquetil du, i. 27 mote, 50 note; 11. 5, 175, 205, 207, 220, 232, 244

Perry, Sir Erskine, i. 251, 311; ii. 112, 119

Persepolis, i. 4, 11; ii. 159

Persia, i. 2; size of ancient empire of, 3; 7; first Mahomedan invasion of, 12; ‘‘the soil of Persia is ours,” 18; intercourse of, with India, 24, 25 note ; invasion of, 57-58; singular law in, 68; its ancient empire, 89 ; ancient, 182; 215; first Parsi to visit, 216; 314; ii. 1, 4, 8, 38, 39, 52 note, 78, 140, 146, 158, 172, 273

loyalty of, during Mutiny, 282; their | Persian Gulf, i. 8, 24, 26 note