| 1 | | Introduction by John R. Hinnells and Alan Williams | | 1 |
| Pt. I | | The settlement of the Parsis in India | | 13 |
| 2 | | The structure, significance and poetic integrity of the Qesse-ye Sanjan by Alan Williams | | 15 |
| 3 | | The landing of the Zoroastrians at Sanjan: the archaeological evidence by Rukshana Nanji and Homi Dhalla | | 35 |
| 4 | | Parsi prayer and devotional song in the Indian diaspora by Sarah Stewart | | 59 |
| Pt. II | | Parsis in nineteenth-century India | | 79 |
| 5 | | Partner in empire: Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy and the public culture of nineteenth-century Bombay by Jesse S. Palsetia | | 81 |
| 6 | | Changing perceptions of authority among Parsis in British India by John R. Hinnells | | 100 |
| 7 | | Bombay Parsi merchants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Rusheed R. Wadia | | 119 |
| 8 | | Mourning, philanthropy, and M. M. Bhownaggrees road to parliament by John McLeod | | 136 |
| Pt. III | | Parsis in twentieth-century India and in their diasporas | | 157 |
| 9 | | Judging conversion to Zoroastrianism: behind the scenes of the Parsi Panchayat case (1908) by Mitra Sharafi | | 159 |
| 10 | | Iranians and Indians on the shores of Serendib (Sri Lanka) by Jamsheed K. Choksy | | 181 |
| 11 | | Zoroastrians in Europe 1976 to 2003: continuity and change by Gillian Mary Towler Mehta | | 211 |
| 12 | | Para-Zoroastrianisms: memetic transmission and appropriations by Michael Stausberg | | 236 |
| 13 | | Parsis in India and the diaspora in the twentieth century and beyond by John R. Hinnells | | 255 |