Parsis
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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)
Feroze Gandhi
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Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was an Indian independence activist, politician and journalist. He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha, th
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…businessmen include Cyrus Poonawalla and his son Adar Poonawalla. The husband of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and son-in-law of Jawaharlal Nehru, Feroze Gandhi, was a Parsi with ancestral roots in Bharuch. The Parsi community has given India several distinguished military officers. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw…
Gandhi before 1950
The marriage ceremony of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Nehru at Anand Bhavan, on 26 March 1942. In 1984, a photograph of the wedding was used in court to show that the ceremony followed Hindu, and not Parsi, rituals.
Rajiv, Feroze, Indira Gandhi and Nehru at Anand Bhawan, 1945