Jesse S Palsetia
Biographic Data
| ID | 132296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse S Palsetia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse S |
| FAMILY NAME | Palsetia |
| SIGNATURE | PALSETIA J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bombay Lights
Gas lighting, part of a re-envisioning of cities as modern metropoles, was one of the first ‘modern’ technologies implemented in nineteenth century Bombay. The debates over the implementation of gas light to illuminate the streets of Bombay have largely been overlooked in the history and historiography of colonial Bombay. Yet, the illumination of Bombay’s public streets with gas light was an important turning point in the transition of Bombay fro…
Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy of Bombay
This work details the life and public career of one of Bombay and India's legendary individuals. Born of humble origins, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was a merchant-prince of Bombay, influential citizen, and one of India's greatest early philanthropists. An ambitious and canny individual, Jejeebhoy carved out a place under British colonialism for himself and the early Indian commercial class, and notwithstanding many challenges is testament to Indian inge…
The Merchant-Prince of Bombay
This chapter examines Jejeebhoy’s economic rise from minor trader to merchant-prince of Bombay. It shows how Jejeebhoy entered into commercial collaboration with various parties including the British. It acquaints the reader with Jejeebhoy’s business world and the shipping trade he developed that expanded to East Asia. It discusses Jejeebhoy’s trade in opium to China and how Jejeebhoy, alongside other Parsis and Indians, played a major role in th…
The Parsi Leader
This chapter examines Jejeebhoy’s role and reputation among the Parsis of Bombay and India. The corollary of Jejeebhoy’s public role was that he was also a leader of the Parsis and a representative of Indians to the British in Bombay. It examines how Jejeebhoy, despite being a traditionalist Parsi, was progressive in his outlook. It reveals how he sought to ‘modernize’ aspects of Parsi leadership and tradition, in large measure by utilizing the B…
Williams, Alan, The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qess-ye Sanjān 'The Story of Sanjān
Williams, Alan, The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qess-ye Sanjān 'The Story of Sanjān'" published on 01 Jan 2011 by Brill
The Parsis of India and the opium trade in China
The article examines the role of the Parsis of India in the opium trade between China and India during the 18th and 19th centuries. It examines the significant role of a non-European group in the history of drugs. The Parsi involvement in the opium trade constituted an important component in the rise of Western capital in Asia, the development of the Indian and imperial economies, and the growth of Bombay and other colonial centers. Furthermore, …
Parsi and Hindu Traditional and Nontraditional Responses to Christian Conversion in Bombay, 1839–45
This article examines two celebrated cases of the conversion of Indian youths to Christianity by missionaries in Bombay: the case of Dhanjibhai Nauroji of 1839 and the case of Shripat Sheshadri of 1843. The cases were precedents in Indians challenging Christian conversion by way of the law courts, and highlight the adaptive responses of the Parsi and Hindu communities of Bombay and western India to Christian proselytism, and the attractions and c…
Merchant Charity and Public Identity Formation in Colonial India
This article examines the place of public philanthropy in enhancing the role of the Indian merchant in Bombay, India, during the first half of the 19th century. It supplements works that have stressed the indigenous elite's attempts to contest and negotiate a significant place within the public culture of colonial India. Specifically, it emphasizes the opportunities and difficulties associated with Indian attempts to shape a colonial civic cultur…
Reversing the Gaze
Honourable Machinations
This paper examines the Indian response to the development of an honours system and imperial rites in India in the first half of the nineteenth century, and in particular the efforts by the Jejeebhoy family and its supporters to obtain the Indian businessman Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy a hereditary baronetcy prior to his death. It argues that the baronetcy scheme of Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy and the Indian response to honours in general marked the recognition …
Mad Dogs and Parsis
The article details the events and themes surrounding a strike and riot that transpired in colonial Bombay in 1832, led by a segment of the Parsi community and joined by other Indians, in reaction to the British cull of stray pariah dogs in the streets. The strike and riot demonstrated the commercial power of the Parsis to disrupt the daily routine of Bombay and exert their influence in hostility to colonial interference and incursions against Pa…
Merchant Charity and Public Identity Formation in Colonial India
This article examines the place of public philanthropy in enhancing the role of the Indian merchant in Bombay, India, during the first half of the 19th century. It supplements works that have stressed the indigenous elite's attempts to contest and negotiate a significant place within the public culture of colonial India. Specifically, it emphasizes the opportunities and difficulties associated with Indian attempts to shape a colonial civic cultur…
Mad Dogs and Parsis
The article details the events and themes surrounding a strike and riot that transpired in colonial Bombay in 1832, led by a segment of the Parsi community and joined by other Indians, in reaction to the British cull of stray pariah dogs in the streets. The strike and riot demonstrated the commercial power of the Parsis to disrupt the daily routine of Bombay and exert their influence in hostility to colonial interference and incursions against Pa…
The Parsis of India and the opium trade in China
The article examines the role of the Parsis of India in the opium trade between China and India during the 18th and 19th centuries. It examines the significant role of a non-European group in the history of drugs. The Parsi involvement in the opium trade constituted an important component in the rise of Western capital in Asia, the development of the Indian and imperial economies, and the growth of Bombay and other colonial centers. Furthermore, …
Parsi and Hindu Traditional and Nontraditional Responses to Christian Conversion in Bombay, 1839–45
This article examines two celebrated cases of the conversion of Indian youths to Christianity by missionaries in Bombay: the case of Dhanjibhai Nauroji of 1839 and the case of Shripat Sheshadri of 1843. The cases were precedents in Indians challenging Christian conversion by way of the law courts, and highlight the adaptive responses of the Parsi and Hindu communities of Bombay and western India to Christian proselytism, and the attractions and c…
Honourable Machinations
This paper examines the Indian response to the development of an honours system and imperial rites in India in the first half of the nineteenth century, and in particular the efforts by the Jejeebhoy family and its supporters to obtain the Indian businessman Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy a hereditary baronetcy prior to his death. It argues that the baronetcy scheme of Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy and the Indian response to honours in general marked the recognition …
Mad Dogs and Parsis
The article details the events and themes surrounding a strike and riot that transpired in colonial Bombay in 1832, led by a segment of the Parsi community and joined by other Indians, in reaction to the British cull of stray pariah dogs in the streets. The strike and riot demonstrated the commercial power of the Parsis to disrupt the daily routine of Bombay and exert their influence in hostility to colonial interference and incursions against Pa…
Honourable Machinations
This paper examines the Indian response to the development of an honours system and imperial rites in India in the first half of the nineteenth century, and in particular the efforts by the Jejeebhoy family and its supporters to obtain the Indian businessman Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy a hereditary baronetcy prior to his death. It argues that the baronetcy scheme of Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy and the Indian response to honours in general marked the recognition …
Reversing the Gaze
Merchant Charity and Public Identity Formation in Colonial India
This article examines the place of public philanthropy in enhancing the role of the Indian merchant in Bombay, India, during the first half of the 19th century. It supplements works that have stressed the indigenous elite's attempts to contest and negotiate a significant place within the public culture of colonial India. Specifically, it emphasizes the opportunities and difficulties associated with Indian attempts to shape a colonial civic cultur…
Parsi and Hindu Traditional and Nontraditional Responses to Christian Conversion in Bombay, 1839–45
This article examines two celebrated cases of the conversion of Indian youths to Christianity by missionaries in Bombay: the case of Dhanjibhai Nauroji of 1839 and the case of Shripat Sheshadri of 1843. The cases were precedents in Indians challenging Christian conversion by way of the law courts, and highlight the adaptive responses of the Parsi and Hindu communities of Bombay and western India to Christian proselytism, and the attractions and c…
The Parsis of India and the opium trade in China
The article examines the role of the Parsis of India in the opium trade between China and India during the 18th and 19th centuries. It examines the significant role of a non-European group in the history of drugs. The Parsi involvement in the opium trade constituted an important component in the rise of Western capital in Asia, the development of the Indian and imperial economies, and the growth of Bombay and other colonial centers. Furthermore, …
Williams, Alan, The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qess-ye Sanjān 'The Story of Sanjān
Williams, Alan, The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qess-ye Sanjān 'The Story of Sanjān'" published on 01 Jan 2011 by Brill
The Merchant-Prince of Bombay
This chapter examines Jejeebhoy’s economic rise from minor trader to merchant-prince of Bombay. It shows how Jejeebhoy entered into commercial collaboration with various parties including the British. It acquaints the reader with Jejeebhoy’s business world and the shipping trade he developed that expanded to East Asia. It discusses Jejeebhoy’s trade in opium to China and how Jejeebhoy, alongside other Parsis and Indians, played a major role in th…
The Parsi Leader
This chapter examines Jejeebhoy’s role and reputation among the Parsis of Bombay and India. The corollary of Jejeebhoy’s public role was that he was also a leader of the Parsis and a representative of Indians to the British in Bombay. It examines how Jejeebhoy, despite being a traditionalist Parsi, was progressive in his outlook. It reveals how he sought to ‘modernize’ aspects of Parsi leadership and tradition, in large measure by utilizing the B…
Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy of Bombay
This work details the life and public career of one of Bombay and India's legendary individuals. Born of humble origins, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was a merchant-prince of Bombay, influential citizen, and one of India's greatest early philanthropists. An ambitious and canny individual, Jejeebhoy carved out a place under British colonialism for himself and the early Indian commercial class, and notwithstanding many challenges is testament to Indian inge…
Bombay Lights
Gas lighting, part of a re-envisioning of cities as modern metropoles, was one of the first ‘modern’ technologies implemented in nineteenth century Bombay. The debates over the implementation of gas light to illuminate the streets of Bombay have largely been overlooked in the history and historiography of colonial Bombay. Yet, the illumination of Bombay’s public streets with gas light was an important turning point in the transition of Bombay fro…
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