Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c5.s3.t11.3

v1.c5.s3.t11.3

He took particular interest in female education. He also actively campaigned to reform the practice of Zoroastrianism in India, aiming to purge it of what he believed were unnecessary rituals. He came from a long line of China traders and himself had spent some years doing business in China as a young man.