This article is about (members of) the Parsi Zoroastrian community in and from India. The term "Parsi" may also be used... in an anthropological context to refer to a person who comes from Pars (the middle-Persian word for Fars) in Iran. in Persian language nomenclature, where "Parsi" is the Persian language term for the Persian language itself, or the Persian language term for a speaker of the Persian language. "Parsee" is the Br ...

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• Parsi - Ethnic origins of the Parsis of India
• Parsi - Definition of Parsi
• Parsi - History of Parsis in India
• Parsi - Prominent Parsis in Science and Industry
• Parsi - Prominent Parsis in the Arts
• Parsi - Prominent Parsis in Law Government and the Indian Nationalist Movement
• Parsi - Prominent Parsi families in India
• Parsi - Prominent Parsi families in other parts of the world

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Parsi, Parsi - Ethnic origins of the Parsis of India, Parsi - Definition of Parsi, Parsi - History of Parsis in India, Parsi - Prominent Parsis in Science and Industry, Parsi - Prominent Parsis in the Arts, Parsi - Prominent Parsis in Law Government and the Indian Nationalist Movement, Parsi - Prominent Parsi families in India, Parsi - Prominent Parsi families in other parts of the world

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The definition of who (and who is not) a Parsi is is a matter of great contention within the Zoroastrian community in India. Generally accepted to be a Parsi is a person who a) is directly descended from the original Persian refugees; and b) has been formally admitted into the religion. Some members of the community additionally contend that a child must have a Parsi father to be eligible for introduction into the faith, but this assertian is considered by most to be a violation of the Zoroastrian tenets of gender equality, and ...

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Parsi, Parsi - Ethnic origins of the Parsis of India, Parsi - Definition of Parsi, Parsi - History of Parsis in India, Parsi - Prominent Parsis in Science and Industry, Parsi - Prominent Parsis in the Arts, Parsi - Prominent Parsis in Law Government and the Indian Nationalist Movement, Parsi - Prominent Parsi families in India, Parsi - Prominent Parsi families in other parts of the world

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Dari is the first language of an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 persons living in and around the cities of Yazd and Kerman in central Iran. While Dari is spoken in a geographical area that is predominately Muslim, it is the proprietary language of the area’s Zoroastrians, followers of the pre-Islamic religion of Iran. Genetically, Dari is a member of the Northwestern Iranian language subfamily, which includes several other closely related languages, e.g. Kurdish, Gilaki, Balochi. The Northwestern Iranian languages themselves comprise a br ...

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• Dari Zoroastrian - Dari's name
• Dari Zoroastrian - Dari's dialects
• Dari Zoroastrian - Dari's endangered status
• Dari Zoroastrian - Select bibliography

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Sir Cowasji Jehangir (second bart.) was a prominent member of the Mumbai Parsi community. He was the grandson of Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, first baronet of Bombay. Cowasji Jehangir campaigned for a prominent role for the Parsi Zoroastrian community in independent India. He had become a member of the "Western India National Liberation Federation", at its founding in 1919, and was elected its president in 1936 and 1937. He was also active in the reactionary "Parsee Central Committee", which was critical of Congr ...

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• Cowasji Jehangir - Reference

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Bhikaji Rustom Cama (Madam Cama, Madame Cama) (September 24, 1861-August 13, 1936) was a prominent figure in the Indian Nationalist Movement. Bhikaji Rustom Cama was born Bhika Sorab Patel on 24th September, 1861 in Bombay (now Mumbai) into a large, well-off Parsi family. Her father, Sorabji Framji Patel, a merchant and trader, was well-known in the city. The father doted on his little girl, and affectionately called her "Munni". As with all Parsi girls of the time, Bhikaji attended Alexandra Parsee Girls' School. Bhikaji was by all accounts a diligent, disciplined child, with a flair for languages and a pas ...

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• Bhikaji Cama - External References

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Bapsi Sidhwa (1938 - ) is an important author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. She is of Parsi Zoroastrian background, and has depicted Parsi life, customs, and the Zoroastrian religion in great detail in most of her works. She is also the recipient of many awards, including the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest honor. Sidhwa was born in Karachi, Pakistan, but her family moved shortly thereafter to Lahore. She currently resides in Houston, Texas (where she has lived for the past several decades) and maintains ...

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• Bapsi Sidhwa - Works

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Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825–30 June 1917) was a Parsi intellectual and educator, and an early Indian political leader. He was a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP. The son of Maneckbai and Naoroji Palanji Dordi, a poor Athornan Parsi family, Naoroji was educated at Elphinstone College and later became a teacher. By 1855 he was Professor of Mathematics and Natural philosophy. He moved to England in 1855, first working in business, later becom ...

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From Ahura Mazda. They were the ancient Persian nobles who worshipped Ormazd, and, rejecting images, inspired the Jews with the same horror for every concrete representation of the Deity. They seemed in Herodotus' time to have been superseded by the Magian religionists. The Parsis and Gebers, (geberim, mighty men, of Genesis vi. and x. 8) appear to be Magian religionists. See also. Spiegel's Yasna, xl Spiegel's Yasna, xl ...

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Wadia family is a relatively old family of Parsis originally based in Surat. They began in shipbuilding. In 1736 Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia served The British East India Company for building docks and ships in Bombay, now called Mumbai. From then on they would be associated with Mumbai, but many of them remained in Surat. By the 1840s the family was one of the leading forces in shipbuilding in Surat. At that point they had built over a hundred warships for the British and had trading networks around the world This lead to Ardeshir Cursetji Wadia becoming ...

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Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil Du Perron (December 7, 1731 - January 17, 1805), French orientalist, brother of Louis-Pierre Anquetil, the historian, was born in Paris. He stayed in India for seven years (1755–61), where Parsi priests taught him Persian, and translated the Avesta for him (it is probably not true that he mastered the Avestan language). He edited a French translation of that Persian translation in 1771, the first printed publication of Zoroastri ...

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The Towers of Silence (also dakhma or dokhma) are Zoroastrian funerary towers, the majority of which are located in Mumbai, India, belonging to Parsi Zoroastrians, and in Yazd and Kerman, Iran, belonging to the Iranian Zoroastrians. Zoroastrians consider the dead body to be unclean, and their religion prohibits allowing corpses to pollute the pure elements of earth and fire. Corpses are therefore placed atop the Towers of Silence for their flesh to be consumed by vultures. Once the bones have been bleached by the sun and wind, they are ...

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Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian-born conductor of European classical music. Zubin Mehta was born into an aristocratic Zoroastrian (Parsi) family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. His father Mehli Mehta was a violinist and founding conductor of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. Zubin initially intended to study medicine, but eventually became a music student in Vienna at the age of 18, under the eminent instructor Hans Swarowsky. (Also at the same academy along with Zubin were conductor Claudio Abbado and Daniel Barenbo ...

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Cowasji Shavaksha Dinshaw (Adenwalla), (1827-1900) Cowasji Shavaksha Dinshaw, later known in India as Adenwalla ("from Aden"), was a Parsi trader who emigrated from Surat/Bombay to Aden around 1855, and went on to develop that "sleepy town into a thriving port city". He travelled extensively and set up trading posts in other British possesions/protectorates, most notably on the east-African coast in Zansibar and Mombasa. He was however best known for his business acumen, and the foresight that Aden would become an imp ...

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• Cowasji Dinshaw Adenwalla - External References

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• Indian cuisine - History
• Indian cuisine - Regional cuisines
• Indian cuisine - Staple ingredients and spices
• Indian cuisine - Indian food abroad
• Indian cuisine - Media
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• Bengali cuisine - Historical influences
• Bengali cuisine - The Spread of Islam
• Bengali cuisine - The Influence of the Widows
• Bengali cuisine - European and Other Outside Influences
• Bengali cuisine - The Partition of Bengal
• Bengali cuisine - Culinary Influences
• Bengali cuisine - Traditional Bengali cuisine
• Bengali cuisine - Mughal influence
• Bengali cuisine - Anglo-Indian or Raj cuisine
• Bengali cuisine - Chinese food
• Bengali cuisine - Bengali Meals
• Bengali cuisine - Courses in a daily meal
• Bengali cuisine - Sweets
• Bengali cuisine - Snacks
• Bengali cuisine - Glossary

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The first Parsi to arrive in Bombay was Dorabji Nanabhoy in 1640. The Parsis had fled their native Iran after Arab invaders forced many to proselytise to Islam. They were to play an important part in the city's development. Later in 1670 the first printing press was imported by Parsi businessman Bhimji Parikh marking the city's long tradition with publishing. Two years later in 1672, the Tower of Silence, a place to dispose their dead was built by Seth Modi Hirji Vachha on Malabar Hill. The first fire-temple was also built in the same year by Seth Vachha opposite ...

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History of Mumbai, History of Mumbai - Ancient times, History of Mumbai - Portuguese era, History of Mumbai - British East India, History of Mumbai - Parsi arrivals, History of Mumbai - Bombay Castle, History of Mumbai - Reclamations, History of Mumbai - Hornby Vellard, History of Mumbai - Other causeways, History of Mumbai - Early 1800s

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Jeejebhoy's services were first recognized in 1842 by the bestowal of a knighthood and in 1858 by the award of a baronetcy. These were the very first distinctions of their kind conferred by Queen Victoria upon a British subject in India. On Jeejebhoy's death in 1859, his titles were inherited by his eldest son Cursetjee Jeejebhoy, who, by a special Act of the Viceroy's Council in pursuance of a provision in the letters-patent, took the na ...

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Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - Early life and business career, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - Philanthropy, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - Baronetcy, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - Jeejebhoy and the Parsi community, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - External references

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Jeejebhoy was born in Mumbai in 1783 of poor but respectable parents who soon died, leaving him an orphan. At the age of sixteen, having had little formal education, he made his first visit to Calcutta and then began his first trading voyage to China. Jeejebhoy's second return voyage to China was made in one of the East India Company's fleet, which, under the command of Sir Nathaniel Dance, drove off a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Ch ...

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Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - Early life and business career, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - Philanthropy, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - Baronetcy, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - Jeejebhoy and the Parsi community, Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy - External references

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