#  MHS: The World Becomes Round: Cultural and Commercial Connections between Bombay Parsis and Yankees, 1771-1861 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **August 8, 2018** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 **1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA**  



 

 



 

 This talk focuses on the commercial and cultural connections between New Englanders and Parsis in Bombay from the 1770s to the 1850s. Commercially, the Parsis began to act as agent-brokers for Massachusetts merchants in the late 1780s. But Parsi Zoroastrian religious ideas and rituals were already known to at least a few readers in New England by spring of 1772, when the first European translations of Zoroastrian texts were sent, at Benjamin Franklin’s recommendation, to the Redwood Athenaeum’s librarian.

 Speaker:

 Jennifer Rose, Claremont Graduate University



 

 



 

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