THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PARSEES
A PAPER READ BEFORE THE LIVERPOOL PHILOMATHIC SOCIETY,
13th MARCH, 1861.
BY
DADABHAI NAOROJI
To save time, I beg of you to consider at once that I have made in due and most approved form all the requisite and appro¬priate apologies and excuses for presuming to read a Paper before you, and that I have told you in all modesty that, despairing of deserving any credit from my own merits, I throw myself entirely upon your kind indulgence. Knowing you will not grudge me this much—perhaps a little for your own sake, as well as mine—I at once proceed to the subject of this Paper.