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The Parsis or Parsees are a Zoroastrian ethnic group in the Indian subcontinent. They are descended from Persian refugees who migrated to the Indian subcontinent during and after the Arab-Islamic conq
A Parsi Lady (c. 1928) Mahadev V. Dhurandhar
Parsis from India, c. 1870
Wedding portrait, 1948
Parsi Navjote ceremony (rites of admission into the Zoroastrian faith)
Jamsetji Tata
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Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and patriarch of the Tata family who founded the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate. He established the city of Jamshedpur.
Parsis
…culture without causing disruption. The Parsis became highly influential in trade, industry, culture, and philanthropy. Icons from the Parsis include Jamsetji Tata, Freddie Mercury, Homi Bhabha, Ardeshir Godrej, Shapoor Mistry, and Cyrus Poonawalla. According to the 16th-century Parsi epic Qissa-i Sanjan, fleeing…
Tata on a 1910 stamp of India
Statue of J. N. Tata (top) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore faculty hall with a miniature model of the faculty hall in his hand
A portrait at New York Jain temple depicting Shrimad Rajchandra and Jamsetji Tata at his bungalow where Shrimad spoke about insignificance of transient material possessions.
Mausoleum of Jamsetji Tata in Brookwood Cemetery