As an author based in Ahmedabad, I am currently investigating the life and times of a British army officer who lived in India from 1809 to 1835. A very colorful person called Maj Thomas Darcy Morris, he arrived as a lieutenant and died a major.
A social person, he was fond of horse, racing (often entering his own horse the Golden Goblin), as well as clubbing, hunting, writing poetry and contributing to magazines of those times, 1822 -1833, especially the Oriental Sporting Magazine.
Since the Parsis of those days were close to the British, socially as well as professionally, there may......