Place · Parsi priestly town · India
Navsari
Also known as Navsari, Nausari, Navsari — the Parsi town
The priestly capital of the Parsis in Gujarat, where the Bhagarsath anjuman has held authority over ritual practice since the thirteenth century and where the Iranshah fire rested for nearly three hundred years. Jamsetji Tata, Dadabhai Naoroji and the Wadia shipbuilders all came from Navsari families.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 20.950, 72.920
Worth knowing
Almost every Parsi surname that matters in Bombay's industrial history traces back to this one small Gujarat town, which is what happens when a community of a few tens of thousands produces a commercial class in a single generation.
Connections (2)
- Life routeJamsetji Tata
Jamsetji was born at Navsari in 1839 into a priestly family that had turned to trade, and so were the Wadia shipbuilders and Dadabhai Naoroji. A single Gujarat town of a few thousand Parsis produced the founder of Indian heavy industry, the builders of the Bombay dockyard and the first Indian in the British Parliament inside one century.
- Present atZoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism's Navsari Atash Behram — one of the five Parsi atash behrams — has carried the Sanjan fire for over 500 years.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Navsari”. Parsi Panchayat records; John Hinnells, The Zoroastrian Diaspora.
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