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Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity

Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity

Update: 2025-08-08
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Iona Italia talks to novelist and historian Nev March about how a series of landmark court cases in the 19th and 20th centuries upended both the Indian legal system and the Parsi community.

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