Miss Griffith and Mr Shah

Recently we came across very old records of a Parsi-only covenanted building in Dadar Parsi Colony where a tenant called Miss Griffith had resided for 30 years. An Anglo Indian intrusion into the hallowed precincts of a Zarathushti building? Not at all. Sheroo Cawasji Griffith was born of both Parsi parents and had not a drop of juddin blood in her veins. Her paternal grandfather had been a cook in the service of a bachelor called Charles Griffith of the Bombay Presidency. Enraptured by the thick lentil and mutton dish conjured up by the industrious Parsi boy from Amalsad —......



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