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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).

The Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai

Maneckji Nuserwanji Dhalla

Gool Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, translator
Behram Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, translator

published in Dastur Dhalla, the Saga of a Soul: Autobiography of Shams-ul-ulama Dastur Dr. Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla

Chapter 68, pp. 722-728

Karachi: Dastur Dr. Dhalla Memorial Institute, 1975

original date

1942

Download: dhalla_saga_soul.pdf.

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