Irani (India)
The Irani (Persian: ایرانی; meaning Iranian) are an ethno-religious community in the Indian subcontinent; they descend from the Zoroastrians who emigrated from Iran to British India in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are culturally, linguistically, ethnically and socially distinct from the Parsis, who – although also Zoroastrians – immigrated to the Indian subcontinent from Greater Iran many centuries prior, starting with the Islamic conquest of Persia.
Persian: ایرانی | |
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| Zoroastrian Dari, Hindi, Other Persian Dialects | |
| Religion | |
| Zoroastrianism | |
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| Parsis |
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