who did the work of religious and social reform in the Parsi community?
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Socio-Religious Reform Movements and Reformers in India: A Complete Overview
Raja Rammohan Roy (1772-1833)
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.
Swami Vivekananda.
HP Blavatsky.
Annie Besant.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898)
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At the time of the Muslim conquest of Persia, the dominant religion of the region (which was ruled by the Sasanian Empire) was Zoroastrianism. Iranians such as Babak Khorramdin rebelled against Muslim conquerors for almost 200 years.[12] During this time many Iranians (who are now called Parsis since the migration to India) chose to preserve their religious identity by fleeing from Persia to India.[13]
The word پارسیان, pronounced "Pārsiān", i.e., "Pārsi" in the Persian language, literally means Persian.[14] Note that Farsi is an Arabization of the word Parsi, which is used as an endonym of Persian, and the Persian language is spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and some other regions of the former Persian Empire.
The long presence of the Parsis in India distinguishes them from the smaller Zoroastrian Indian community of Iranis, who are much more recent arrivals, mostly descended from Zoroastrians fleeing the repression of the Qajar dynasty and the general social and political tumult of late 19th- and early 20th-century Iran.[15] D.L. Sheth, the former director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in India (CSDS), lists Indian communities that constituted the middle class and were traditionally "urban and professional" (following professions like doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, etc.) immediately after Independence in 1947. This list included the Kashmiri Pandits, the Nagar Brahmins from Gujarat; the South Indian Brahmins; the Punjabi Khatris, and Kayasthas from northern India; Chitpawans and CKPs (Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhus) from Maharashtra; the Probasi and the Bhadralok Bengalis; the Parsis and the upper echelons of Muslim and Christian communities. According to P.K. Verma, "Education was a common thread that bound together this pan-Indian elite" and almost all the members of these communities could read and write in English and were educated beyond school.[16][17][18] As such, Parsis are considered a model minority in India