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The Women Excluded from Parsi Life

The Zoroastrians of India are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community. Parsi women praying at the sea wall in Bombay. Alamy. While growing up as a Parsi in Bombay, I was often told that we were the most progressive and egalitarian community in India. In 2001, the

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