Note 23 — Chapter III · Population—Costumes—Usages—Festivals
Ratanbai Ardeshir Vakil translation
“For if a German or a European of another nationality can secure a commission in the British Army, why should not a Parsee, who is the born subject of the Queen-Empress?” (See Hist. of the Parsis, vol. i. chap. iii. p. 104.)