History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

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In the resolution which was thus adopted it was further declared that these professorships should bear the name of him in whose honour they were founded, and a hope was expressed that the happy period would arrive when natives of this country would be found qualified for holding them. This expressed hope has ever been borne in mind. It was therefore with no ordinary feeling of satisfaction that we felt ourselves justified in nominating Mr. Dadabhai Naorozji to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy—a measure so entirely in accordance with both the letter and spirit of the resolution,”

Several other Parsis have obtained the posts of assistant professors and masters, and many have found employment in the public and other services. At the present day most of the Parsis who occupy high positions in the Government service or who are distinguishing themselves in various walks of life are Hlphinstonians. Since the establishment of the Bombay University in the year 1857 over a thousand Parsis have passed the matriculation examination, a large number have taken the B.A. degree, and a good many have passed the M.A. examination as well as that of LL.B. In the public service we have Parsi members of the Covenanted Civil Service, who have obtained the rich prize by open competition in England with English youths.’ There are also Parsi magistrates, Parsi Revenue officers, Parsi judges, Parsi engineers, and Parsi surgeons and physicians. All these results

1 Tt will be pertinent to state here that a Parsi gentleman, Mr. Mancherji Pestanji Kharegat, occupied the first place at the final examination in 1884 of those who passed the competitive examination of 1882.