{"id":6643,"date":"2012-08-25T01:21:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/?p=6643"},"modified":"2012-08-25T01:21:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T05:21:17","slug":"irani-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/irani-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Irani (India)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The\u00a0Iranis<\/strong>\u00a0are an ethno-religious community in the\u00a0Indian Subcontinent<\/a>; descendants of\u00a0Zoroastrians<\/a>\u00a0who emigrated from\u00a0Iran<\/a>\u00a0to the Indian Subcontinent within the last few centuries. They are culturally, linguistically and socially distinct from the\u00a0Parsis<\/a>, who – although also Zoroastrians – arrived on the subcontinent over 1,200 years ago. The Parsis and Iranis may also be considered legally distinct. This is based in part on a 1909\u00a0obiter dictum<\/a>\u00a0that, among many other issues relating to the Indian Zoroastrians, also observed that Iranis (of the now defunct\u00a0Bombay Presidency<\/a>) were not obliged to uphold the decisions of the then-regulatory Parsi\u00a0Panchayat<\/a>.<\/p>\n Although the term ‘Irani’ is first attested during the\u00a0Mughal era<\/a>, most Iranis are descendants of immigrants who arrived on the Indian subcontinent during the 19th and early 20th centuries, that is, when Iran was ruled by the\u00a0Qajars<\/a>\u00a0and when religious persecution of non-Muslims was rampant. The descendants of the immigrants of those times remain culturally and linguistically closer to the\u00a0Zoroastrians of Iran<\/a>, in particular to the Zoroastrians of\u00a0Yazd<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kerman<\/a>. Consequently, the\u00a0Dari<\/a>\u00a0dialect of the Zoroastrians of those provinces may also be heard amongst the Iranis.<\/p>\n In India, most Iranis live in and around the cities of\u00a0Mumbai<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Hyderabad<\/a>. Many Indian Iranis have strong historical ties with the city of\u00a0Hyderabad<\/a>.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n Notable members of the Irani community include:<\/p>\n Wiki<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0Iranis\u00a0are an ethno-religious community in the\u00a0Indian Subcontinent; descendants of\u00a0Zoroastrians\u00a0who emigrated from\u00a0Iran\u00a0to the Indian Subcontinent within the last few centuries. They are culturally, linguistically and socially distinct from the\u00a0Parsis, who – … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Notable Iranis<\/h2>\n
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