A Parsi in Early Colonial Mauritius
Recently there has been a concern for the Parsis (i.e “Persians”) – heirs of Zoroastrian refugees who fled Persia and landed on the coast of Gujarat, India, perhaps in the eighth or tenth century, especially in Bharuch and Surat hinterlands. Later Navsari, some 35 km south of Surat, became the main religious Parsi center in Gujarat. In the eighteenth century,
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