Parsis and Iranis.
The same religion in two communities with different histories. The Parsis left Iran for Gujarat over a millennium ago and became Gujarati-speaking; the Iranis came in the nineteenth century fleeing persecution, speak the Dari dialect of Yazd and Kerman, and kept a different calendar. In Iran itself Zoroastrians are a constitutionally recognised minority with a reserved parliamentary seat.
The two communities share a religion and not much else. The Parsis are descendants of refugees who left Iran in the centuries after the Arab conquest and settled in Gujarat, becoming Gujarati-speaking, adopting local dress for women, and later concentrating in Bombay where they became a major commercial and professional class under the British. The Iranis arrived in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fleeing intensified persecution and the jizya tax, and are distinguishable by surname, by their Dari dialect from Yazd and Kerman, and historically by a different calendar — the calendar dispute between the Shahenshahi, Kadmi and Fasli reckonings has caused genuine schism among Parsis since the eighteenth century. Zoroastrians in Iran itself, concentrated around Yazd, Kerman and Tehran, are constitutionally recognised as a religious minority with a reserved seat in the Majlis, and number a few tens of thousands, with the exact figure contested.
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