Sir Dinshaw Manickjee Petit, Sheriff of Bombay
Sir Dinshaw Manickjee Petit, Sheriff of Bombay

Sir Dinshaw Manickjee Petit, Sheriff of Bombay

1887

Engraved from a photograph by Mayall

The Illustrated London News (1869)

The Parsees of Bombay, descendants of an ancient colony of Persian race in that great commercial city of Western India, retaining in all its purity the creed and rites of the venerable Zoroastrian religion, are justly esteemed for their virtues as loyal and well-behaved citizens, and for their intelligence and enterprise in mercantile business, their liberality of sentiment, and the noble acts of munificence and charity performed by some of the richer members of that community. [Continued below]

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