Born entrepreneurs: Author Coomi Kapoor gives an insight into the Intimate History of Parsis

Long before the arrival of the Tatas and even before the Parsis’ pioneering role in the development of the city of Bombay, the Parsis of Gujarat had made a name for themselves as entrepreneurs. As early as the fifteenth century, Parsis were trading from Gujarat with merchants in Persia, Arabia and South East Asia. They would handle supplies to ships for trade in salt, corn, wheat and cotton in exchange for spices from the southeast which…