Parsis
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Parsis, DNA and steppe incursions
Indosaurus announces his long-promised article on Parsi matrilineal DNA and steppe ancestry, published on his Substack, and hopes Zoroastrians and Hindus can reclaim the name Aryan from racists.
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Parsi Nanis Are Gujarati
X.T.M reads genetic studies of the Parsis, with Iranian paternal lines and roughly half South Asian maternal lines, to argue that Parsi Gujarati comes from founding Gujarati mothers. A Facebook…
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Bollywood, Brahmins, Parsis & WASPs:
X.T.M argues that elites are reproduced by property, institutions and networks rather than blood, so intermarriage is usually a merger, not a threat, citing English aristocrats and American heiresses, Parsis,…
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The Parsis of Bombay
Prompted by Michael Axworthy’s Iran: Empire of the Mind, the author reposts a decade-old personal account of the Parsis of Mumbai, descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia for Gujarat after…
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Endogamy and assimilation: Parsis in India
Prompted by a Guardian profile of Parsis, Razib Khan argues they combine high assimilation with high separateness, citing genetic work that finds them closest to Iranians and Caucasus populations, with…
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Browncast Episode 54: Sojourn in India as a international Parsi
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Iona Italia, a Parsi raised in Europe, about her experience of returning to the Indian subcontinent; she hosts the Two for Tea podcast, edits…
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Sting of a WASP
The author, who says he stands with Dalits, argues that Western vilification of India’s upper castes is unhelpful, that those castes are shrinking through migration, intermarriage and low fertility as…
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The idea of foreigness in the Indian Muslim narrative
Prompted by Laila Tyabji’s essays on her Bohra family, the author argues the most ‘pro-Indian’ Muslims are those most sure of their foreignness, as with Parsis, while convert classes stress…
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Will the last Parsi to die please blow out the sacred fire?
Defending the Jiyo Parsi campaign to lift the Parsi birth rate against a liberal article likening it to a khap panchayat, the author argues descendants of Persia’s persecuted Zoroastrians should…
