Description: Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism.
Brief description: Afshin Marashi is Farzaneh Family Professor of Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940 and the coeditor of Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity.
Review Quotes: The perspective in [Exile and the Nation] is truly transnational, and its approach offers methodological as well as substantive inspiration for future studies...an intellectually provocative and engaging read.-- "TRAFO--Blog for Transregional Research" (2/4/2021 12:00:00 AM)