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COLLECTIONSBiographies, Book excerpts
TITLEThe Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai: (Chapter 68)
AUTHOR 1Maneckji Nuserwanji Dhalla
CONTRIB 1Gool Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans.
CONTRIB 2Behram Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans.
DATE_THIS1975
TITLE_PARENTDastur Dhalla, the Saga of a Soul: Autobiography of Shams-ul-ulama Dastur Dr. Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla
PAGE_RANGE722-728
PUB_THISDastur Dr. Dhalla Memorial Institute
CITY_THISKarachi
DATE_1ST1942
ABSTRACTOverview of the Faith, and the author's interactions with Bahá'ís in the early 1900s. (Navjote is the initiation ceremony where a child receives his/her ceremonial garments and first performs the Zoroastrian ritual.)
NOTES Complete text is online at avesta.org/dhalla/saga.htm. PDF below from Microsoft Word version prepared by Mike Thomas (2022).

See also Appendix F: Indian Zoroastrians and the Bahá'í Faith in Zoroastrian Conversions to the Bahá'í Faith in Yazd, Iran, pp. 102-104 (Maneck, 1983).

TAGS- Interfaith dialogue; Conversion; India; Iran (documents); Karachi, Pakistan; Mumbai (Bombay); New York, USA; Opposition; Pakistan; Pune, India; Tehran, Iran; United States (documents); Zoroastrianism
 
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