Zoroastrians , the first Iranan refugees

A BBC TV Persian program about Zoroastrians immigrated to Gujarat in India aired August 26 . Zoroastrians are known as Parsi in India .

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[Achaemenians]

Great video thanks

[theshirzadegan1]

ba dorud! vaghean jaleb ,mohem va ghabel TAFSIR.......Hamid.

[Hormuzd1]

This is the best video I have seen. It gladdens my heart hearing such broadminded and erudite Zarathushtis in London, relating in short the migration of Zoroastrians from Iran, due to torture and forced conversions in Iran.

To me "let bygons be bygons" is the best policy, but what about the dwindling numbers of the present Zoroastrians?

I would strongly recommend a concerted effort of admitting the willing Iranis, Kurds and Tajikis, by initiation ceremony and welcoming all the new-comers.

[kalimaganeshshivan]

Sepas gozoram dooste! Bayad deroud mi konnam!

[qj35]

i have met some parsis in karachi pakistan they are great people but rather very odd people they are almost reciprocal of south asians

[zangir2007]

Bayad Gol be paye anha rikht

[shitonMOHAMMAD]

@NizoumiPars

interesting: There is record of some 18,000 Zoroastrians leaving Persia in the 18th century (after the mass forced conversions because of the akhound mujta'ed mohammad baquer) in a dozen ships and going to India (Surat etc...) Another wave of some 10,000 left in late Qajar times. These last two waves are known as the "Irani" in India

[shitonMOHAMMAD]

here's an interesting passage:

Documents collected from the “Documents on contemporary Zarathushtis in Iran (1868-1948)

In 1878 in Yazd, one rajabali killed Rashid Zartoshty and sought sanctuary in the islamic shrine in Qum. According to shia muslim customs, scuch shelter-seekers are immune from arrest. With the intervention of Arbab Jamshid, the government paid only a small blood money to the heirs of Rashid.

[shitonMOHAMMAD]

the forced conversion of Abyaneh by the Saffavids, the last Zoroastrians of Gorgan leaving by the 20th century because local muslims would kidap and rape the women and force convert them (sighe)...the razing of the main Fire Temple of Harat in the 9th century by local muslims (unpunished) and the subsequent conversion of the remaining one to a mosque by Timur,

[shitonMOHAMMAD]

@kiabadie

There was Abshahi near Yazd where the muslims forced the Zoroastrians to convert or leave. In Khorassan Ribat, Mafazaq; Kahish,Jarmaq (about 1000 inhabitants) with Bahman, Mehregan, Khur, Mirza Farrokh

were all attacked and forced to convert in the 14th century; there's the massacres of Mazdakites and Zoroastrians at Ray under Nizam al Muluk; the killing of Zoroastrians at Dun in Pakistan by Timur, the razing of four Zoroastrian villages near Mardin in Turkey by Timur etc..

[shitonMOHAMMAD]

@kiabadie

there's the forced conversion of the villages and towns near Esphahan under Shah Sultan Hossein II and his akhound mohammad baquer, 500 Zoroastrians at Gabrabad, some 2500 in Esphahan and many others in Najafabad, Gaz, Koupayeh made to either convert or be killed. The blood of thousands made the Zayandeh Rud flow red according to Chardin.

[shitonMOHAMMAD]

@kiabadie

there's several. Last one was at Turkabad in 19 or 20th century at a place called Ghatl Gah near Borazjan where the population was either massacred or forced to convert. There was the Oasis of Byabanak in the 14th century where the inhabitants were attacked by the Muslims and those that survived forced to convert; there was the forced conversion of Turkabad near Yazd in the late 19th century when the women and children were kidnaped and the men forced to convert