Slow breeders; India's Parsees.(India's dwindling Parsees)(Brief article) From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 19, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Coming of age in an ageing community

Adherents of an ancient faith worry about its disappearance

TWO of India's biggest business clans--Tata and Godrej--are Parsees, descendants of Zoroastrians, who fled the Muslim invasion of Persia for India more than 1,000 years ago. But well though some of its members have done, the Parsee community is dwindling. At the time of the 2001 census India had fewer than 70,000 Parsees, a 40% drop since 1941. Since then, the decl...

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