Moments of Decision - The Journey of Zorastrians from Persia to India, Being the Paris's - The Tata's
Moments of Decision - The Journey of Zorastrians from Persia to India, Being the Paris's- The Tata's A community of 57,624, 80% of whom are based in Mumbai, rest in Gujarat and few across India. The number was 1,14,000 in 1941. The reason for their population decline is not beacuse of famine, health or war but the decisions they have taken in the past on late marriages, no marriage, emigration, the customs which they decided to follow, when they landed in India, a decision which changed the destiny of the community and this played an important role in the development of India, led by key groups of the community, The Tata's, The Mistry's and The Pallomji;s, they are most faciscinating communiity with rich cultural outlook, the story of Zorastrian;s moving to India from Persia between the 8th - 10th Century, a decision then made to find a place for them to have religious freedom when the Sasanian order fell. They transversed from the Persian Gulf all the eay to the weste...