The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Karkaria, Rustomji Pestonij
Karkaria, Rustonji Pestonij, B.A., M.R.A.S.; b. Bombay, 1869: educ: St. Xavier’s School and College; Follow and Professor St. Xavier’s College. Bombay, 1891; Principal and Professor of English Language and iterature, Collegiate Institutions, 1898; Examiner in History and Philosophy, Bombay University: Member of various Commissions appointed by the Parsi Community on Religious Education, on Proselystism, on Religious Trusts, etc; membrr of Managing Committee of Parsi Authors’ Society, of the Zeroastrain Association, and societies. Publications: Edited Carlyle’s Pictuves on European Literature, and Parnell’s Poems, and Golden Treasury, Bk. IV.; Forty Years of Progress and Reform; India since the Mutiny; Historical Sketch of the Parsis; edited Macaulay’s Life of Goldsmith; translated Parsi sacred Book, the Pahalavi Dinkard: Purim and Farwardigan - In the Hoshang Memorial Volume, 1909; The French Revolutionary and the Prsi Calenders: a study in Ohrohology - In the Cama Memorial Volume; Death of Shivaji; edited Lord Curzon’s Farewell Speeches in India, with Esssays on his Vice-royalty, 1906; Lord Courzon’s Indian Vice-royalty, 1908; The Scientific Study of Mahratha History, 1907; Introduction to the Golden Treasury, 1908; Essays in English History; Essays in the History of the Native Press; Begininngs of the Indian Press, etc. Recreations; book and coin-collecting, Address: Gowalia Tank, Grant Road, Bombay, India.