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The Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai

Author	Maneckji Nuserwanji Dhalla
Title of item	The Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai
Subtitle of item	(Chapter 68)
Pages	722-728
Parent publication	Dastur Dhalla, the Saga of a Soul: Autobiography of Shams-ul-ulama Dastur Dr. Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla
Editor, translator, etc.	Gool & Behram Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans
Publisher of this ed.	Karachi: Dastur Dr. Dhalla Memorial Institute
Date of this edition	1975
Language	English
Date of first ed.	1942
Permission	public domain
Posted	2022-08-20 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Biographies and Book excerpts
URL	bahai-library.com/dhalla_saga_soul
Abstract	Overview 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	Conversion; Interfaith dialogue; Opposition; Zoroastrianism
Locations	New York; United States (documents); Tihran; Iran (documents); Karachi; Pakistan; Pune; Mumbai (Bombay); India
Page views	228 hits since 2022-08-20
Last edited	2022-08-20 21:24 EST. See previous versions [archive.org].

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