Parsi community: Sholapur

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Parsis: Sholapur

This is an extract from a British Raj gazetteer pertaining to Sholapur that seems to have been written in 1884. If a census has been cited but its year of not given, 1881 may be assumed.

Parsis

Pa'rsis are returned as numbering 157 and as found chiefly in Sholapur. As shopkeepers, merchants, and contractors, they are well-to-do and prosperous.