Parsees

The main contact between westerners and Zoroastrians came in India where they were known as Parsees (Persians), descendants of those who took part in a large scale migration from Persia after the Muslim conquest of that country.

Zoroaster – forgotten prophet of the one God 2010

And yet, in spite of all this gruesomeness, the Parsees are a happy, social people, and their entertainments, particularly their weddings, are described as presenting a brilliant array of bejewelled women, tastefully dressed in the soft tinted silks they so much affect, with the long graceful veils falling to the feet.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

It was about eight hundred years ago that the persecuted of Asia came over and settled themselves and today they are known as the Parsees and are the - richest and most influential persons in my country.

The India of Tomorrow 1933

The Parsees are a most progressive race if properly protected.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Far stranger than the wedding customs of the Parsees are their burial rites.

The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888

Of all Scriptures the Zend Avesta of the Parsees is the only one which furnishes woman, from the beginning, with absolute equality with man; and that position she has never lost among the Parsees.

India's Problem, Krishna or Christ 1881

This must be admitted, although some recent materialists have pushed the doctrine so far that they may be called the Parsees of the West.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

The Parsees are a very tiny, very rich ethnic and religious minority.

Israel Palestine Blogs 2009

They are there called Parsees, from the land whence they came.]

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

Last week, I noted that in the story the magi, we have Zoroastrian priests looking for a messiah today, Zoroastrians are often called Parsees.

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Interfaith Ironic Christmas Part II: Moses, Osiris and Orpheus Rita Nakashima Brock 2010