Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City by Leilah Vevaina. Published in 2023 by Duke University Press, 905 W. Main St, Ste 19-B, Durham, NO 27701, USA; website: dukepress.edu; email: orders@dukepress.edu. Pp: xii + 201. Price: $ 26.95.
One of the more significant projects made possible through Parsi charity of the 19th and early 20th centuries was the building of Parsi social housing. Both individual charity and charitable trusts provided for the construction of 40 baugs and dharamshalas from the 1830s to the 1930s. The building of residential colonies reserved for Parsis constituted the largest social......