Parsis identified as "white Iranians" and tried to distance themselves from Indians and Hindus - Book Review: The Good Parsi

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From: Luhrmann, T.M. "The Good Parsi: The fate of a colonial elite in a postcolonial society". Harvard University Press, 1996

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"So dramatic grew the Parsi sense of difference from Hindu and Muslim Indians that as the century turned, Iran became the central symbol of Parsi ethnic—that is, non-British—identity, and the emphasis on the difference clearly included and extended the religious rhetoric of Parsi purity. "The Parsis are the one race settled in India (not excepting the Kashmiris or any other) that could for a moment be called white,. proclaims a Parsi journal in 1906. The considerable European philological interest in the ancient religion, united to the energetic Parsi attempt to detach things Parsi from things Hindu, was probably sufficient to ignite practical Parsi efforts to create the sense of a clearly Iranian Zoroastrianism."