Parsees at Bombay
Description: Plate twenty from the first volume of James Forbes'"Oriental Memoirs". Forbes(1749-1819) spent most of his working-life in India in Western India. Forbes compiled copious notes on the native inhabitants of this region which included the very distinct community of the Parsees. Forbes writes, 'The Parsees, descended from the Persian emigrants who left their country...and settled in Bombay...are a people differing very much in appearance and character from the Hindoos and Mahomedans, among whom they reside, and are in all respects perfectly distinct and separate...The background represents one of the common wells in India, with the Cocoa-nut, Papah, and Plantain trees, and a distant view of a Parsee tomb on Malabar Hill.'
Creator:
Artist : Forbes, James
Geographic coverage: 72.833336,18.966667; Bombay
Date: [1813]
Date of creation: 1813
Type: StillImage; Print
Format: jpeg; 29.1; 22.3; Centimetres; Engraving
Subject: India, British School, travels, trees, family, child, Bombay, Mumbai, Parsis; South Asia -- History; 954
Identifier: 019XZZ0000455C7U00020000; 455.c.7
Is part of: Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections. Collect Britain
Rights: Copyright © British Library Board
Data provider: The British Library
Provider: The European Library
Providing country: United Kingdom
