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About The Book -: The was always a Missionary enthusiast, and he was thrilled by the prospect of seeing the field for himself. For years he had studied the religion of the Parsis, and now there opened out before him the opportunity of personal intercourse with them. Under ordinary conditions it would not have been possible to entertain the proposition, on account of other duties ; but the war had so affected all theological colleges that a prolonged absence could be contemplated as not involving of necessity any serious interruption of his normal work. Moreover, coming as it did within a week after he had lost his wife, the invitation seemed to open out for him a course of service in a fresh field just at the time when service on the old field was bound to be so fraught with pain. When another heavy sorrow came to him while he was in India, in the death of his eldest son,He had been invited to go to India largely that he might use his ripe Iranian scholarship in lecturing to the Parsis on Zoroastrianism, and he received from that community every- where proofs of the warmest possible friendship and regard and of the keenest interest in his teaching. About The Author : The Reverend James Hope Moulton (1863 –1917) was a British non-conformist divine. He was also a philologist and made a special study of Zoroastrianism. His family had a strong Methodist background. Dr James Hope Moulton, D.Lit (Lond.); Hon. D.D. (Edinburgh, Berlin and Groningen); Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), was one of three scholars who visited India in 1915, to spend a year studying some of the problems of education and religion in the country, He developed a strong interest in Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest known monotheistic religions. Over the course of his life he published many books and papers, mainly focused on Zoroastrianism and the Greek texts that the Bible is derived from. He was a Prison Chaplain at Preston for some time around 1910. The Title 'The Religious Quest of India : The Treasure of the Magi written/authored/edited by Edited By J. N. Farquharand H. D. Griswold by James Hope Moulton', published in the year 2023. The ISBN 9788121267908 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 290 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Religious History. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Series : 5