The article details the events and themes surrounding astrike and riot that transpired in colonial Bombayin 1832, led by a segment of the Parsi community andjoined by other Indians, in reaction to the Britishcull of stray pariah dogs in the streets. The strikeand riot demonstrated the commercial power of theParsis to disrupt the daily routine of Bombay andexert their influence in hostility to colonialinterference and incursions against Parsi (Indian)religious sensibilities. The Bombay dog riots of1832 exposed the vulnerability of earlyBritish-Indian socio-political relations in Bombayand Western India in the face of populardisturbances against British authority and was inmarked contrast to the state of Parsi-Britishrelations that developed in the nineteenth century,as the Parsis led the process of Indianaccommodation to British rule, tempered only byovert threats to their religious identity.