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A distinctive minority dwindles in India A group apart / Parsis or 'Sparsees'?
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This nation of 1 billion-plus people has tried just about every population
disincentive known to man, including paying people to stop having
children. So how to explain that one community here is paying its
members to have more? Call it a sign of demographic desperation. The
Parsis are followers of the prophet Zoroaster and descendants of Persians
who took refuge in India a millennium ago. Never large in numbers,
by most accounts they are dwindling. In this city, where more than
two-thirds of the 75,000 Parsis in India live, about 1,000 Parsis
die every year. Only 300 to ...
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