Shapurji Edalji (1841/1842 – 23 May 1918) was an Indian-born convert to Anglicanism who was likely the first person from South Asia to be made the vicar of an English parish. His achievements have however been overshadowed by the worldwide fascination with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s campaign to prove his son George innocent of wounding a pony in 1903. The popularity of Julian Barnes’s novel Arthur and George (2005) has had the same effect.[1]
^Davenport-Hines, Richard. "Edalji, Shapurji (1841/2–1918), Church of England clergyman and victim of racial harassment". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57480. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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usage. The same is also testified by scholars R. G. Bhandarkar and ShapurjiEdalji. As per historian W. H. McLeod and Louis Fenech, Khatri is a Punjabi...
Office of the Registrar (1962). Census of India, 1961. Manager of Publications. Edalji, Shapurji (1863). A dictionary Gujarati and English. Atmaram Sagun....
in 1843 which cross-references the gazetteer entry Cannock. In 1876 ShapurjiEdalji was appointed Vicar of Great Wyrley; he served until his death forty-two...
East India Company College. One of the first Indians to teach in the UK. Shapurji Saklatvala (1874–1936), communist activist and British politician of Indian...
resolves never to commit again such forbidden deeds. The scholar Sorabji Edalji Dubash has also written: If a man resorts to the evil practice of masturbation...
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