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Iraj Taraporwala was born in India of the 19th
century and undertook his initial schooling in Mumbai. After obtaining a Tripos
in Sanskrit from Cambridge, U.K, and a Doctorate degree from Wurzburg
University, Germany, Dr. Taraporwala studies Avestan literature under Professor
Christian Bartholomae. He returned to India and was assigned the chairmanship of
the Department of Comparative Philology at the university of Calcutta. He
produced three monumental volumes on Selections from Classical Gujarati
Literature filled with devotional poetry. His translation of Gathas of
Zarathushtra and his other publications on the religion of Zarathushtra are
amongst the classical literatures of Zarathushtrianism.
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Mithraism
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The Ideal of
Aryan Womanhood
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The Religion of Action
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