An updated record of the commercial and
social history of the city has been published by
The K. R. Cama Oriental Institute
Farrokh Jijina
It has intrigue and adventure, a la poisoned cakes, adrift Sikh gentlemen picked up by a Norwegian freighter, boatmen sleeping along a river carted away to England, wealthy Parsis who took their cooks along with them on their second and third trips to England. While one Zoroastrian-Iranian father secreted away his two daughters to the "safety” of India in the charge of a German traveler, many Hindus ventured abroad as early as the end of the 18th century without fearing "loss of caste” [crossing the kala pani (literally, black water) was taboo]. Eminent physician, photographer and urban historian Dr Jehangir......