The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1

by R. V. Russell

1. Introductory.

The number of Pārsis in the Central Provinces in 1911 was about 1800. They are immigrants from Bombay, and usually reside in large towns, where they are engaged in different branches of trade, especially in the manufacture and vend of liquor and the management of cotton mills and factories.[1] The word Pārsi means a resident of the province of Fārs or Pārs in Persia, from which the name of the country is also derived.