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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

India's Parsi population on verge of extinction

Wednesday September 17, 2003
BOMBAY: Khorshed Driver is 72, single and lives with her 96-year-old mother in Bombay.

That's not at all unusual for India's tiny and dwindling Parsi community, or Zoroastrians, who fled religious persecution in Persia and landed on Indian shores more than 1000 years ago.

"We're an ageing and dwindling population," Shernaz Cama, head of a UNESCO research project on the Parsis, said

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May 9, 2006 at 11:52 pm
(1) karthik says:

iam very sad of about the dwindling population of india. Iam ahindu but i love the parsi community. they were the main reason for indias growth please do something about this. If parsi”s are gone india is gone.

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