jan 1, 1851 - Rehnumai Mazdayasan Sabha
Parsi Reform at Bombay
1851
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Rehnumai Mazdayasan Sabha or Religious
Reform Association was started by Naoroji Furdonji, Dadabhai Naoroji,
S.S. Bengalee, and others.
It campaigned against the entrenched orthodoxy
in the religious field and initiated the modernisation of Parsi social customs
regarding the education of women, marriage and the social position of
women in general. In course of time, the Parsis became socially the most
Westernised section of Indian society
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