Dadabhai Naoroji spoke of social reforms and the transition of the
community in a lecture at Liverpool in 1861
Parsiana reprints two extracts from Dr Dadabhai Naoroji’s papers "The Manners and Customs of the Parsees” read before the Liverpool Philomathic Society on March 13, 1861. The second extract will appear in a later issue of Parsiana.
The text was downloaded from Google Books but also features in a booklet printed by The K. R. Cama Oriental Institute in 2005. Included in the booklet is another paper "The Parsee Religion,” read by Naoroji before the Liverpool Library and Philosophical Society on March 18, 1861.
Naoroji was a social reformer, scholar, a member of the British Parliament, a founder of the Indian National......