Parsi | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-16

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Parsi


00:01:31 1 Definition and identity
00:06:36 2 Origins
00:08:06 2.1 As an ethnic community
00:10:11 2.2 Self-perceptions
00:12:32 3 Population
00:13:45 3.1 Other demographic statistics
00:14:43 4 History
00:14:52 4.1 Arrival in the Indian sub-continent
00:19:56 4.2 Early years
00:25:09 4.3 Age of opportunity
00:34:42 5 Religious practices
00:35:07 5.1 Purity and pollution
00:35:42 5.2 Navjote
00:36:31 5.3 Marriage
00:37:57 5.4 Funerals
00:39:01 5.5 Temples
00:39:57 6 Factions within the community
00:40:07 6.1 Calendrical differences
00:42:40 6.1.1 Effect of the calendar disputes
00:44:23 6.2 Ilm-e-Kshnoom
00:45:57 6.3 Issues relating to the deceased
00:47:35 7 Archaeogenetics
00:49:44 8 Prominent Parsis



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A Parsi () or Parsee ("Persian" in the Persian language) refers to a member of the Zoroastrian community who migrated to India (mainly; including present day Pakistan) from Persia during the Arab invasion of 636–651 AD; one of two (the other being Iranis) mainly located in India, with a few in Pakistan. According to the Qissa-i Sanjan, Parsis migrated from Greater Iran to Gujarat, where they were given refuge, between the 8th and 10th century AD to avoid persecution following the Muslim conquest of Persia.At the time of the Muslim conquest of Persia, the dominant religion of the region (which was ruled by the Sasanian Empire) was Zoroastrianism. Iranians rebelled against Muslim conquerors for almost 200 years. During this time many Iranians (who are now called Parsis) chose to preserve their religious identity by fleeing from Persia to India.The word پارسیان, pronounced "Parsian", i.e., "Parsi" in the Persian language, literally means Persian. Farsi is the official language of modern Iran, which was formerly known as Persia, and the Persian language's endonym is Farsi, an arabization of the word Parsi.
The long presence of the Parsis in the Indian subcontinent distinguishes them from the smaller Zoroastrian Indian community of Iranis, who are much more recent arrivals, mostly descended from Zoroastrians fleeing the repression of the Qajar dynasty and the general social and political tumult of late 19th- and early 20th-century Iran.