Indian Religions: Zoroastrian/Parsis


Figure 1.-- There is a small Zoroastrian community in India which are called Parsis. They are Persian in origins. The image shows the initiation rite into the Zoroastrian faith, the "Parsi navjote".

There is a small Zoroastrian community in India. Here the influence was again Middle Eastern, specifically Persian. They appeared about the same time as Islam (8th century). ubsequent to the fall of the Persian Empire, after which Zoroastrianism was gradually supplanted by Islam, many Zoroastrians fled to other regions in the hope of preserving their religious tradition. Among them were several groups who migrated to Gujarat, on the western shores of the Indian subcontinent, where they finally settled. The descendants of those refugees are today known as the Parsis. In India the Zoroastrians enjoyed tolerance and even admiration from other religious communities. From the 19th century onward, the Parsis gained a reputation for their education and widespread influence in all aspects of society, partly due to the divisive strategy of British colonialism which favored certain minorities.






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