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LAW GOVERNING INTESTATE SUCCESSION AMONG THE PARSIS IN INDIA

    1 Author(s):  YADVENDER

Vol -  6, Issue- 2 ,         Page(s) : 52 - 78  (2015 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

1.1 HISTORY OF PARSI MIGRATION Parsis are members of the close-knit Zoroastrian community in or from the Indian subcontinent, and is a descendant of people who, in the 8th century, emigrated to the west-coast of (what is now) India from the Persian Province ‘Pers’ or ‘Pars’ , from which the word Parsi is derived, to escape religious persecution by the Arab conquerors of Persia. The Parsi immigrants adopted the customs of the place where they had first taken shelter. History of Parsis in India began with the arrival of Maga priests in India, possibly during Kushana dynasty. Then Parsis arrived in India from Khorasan and settled at Sanjan in Gujarat which the first Parsi settlement in India.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
STATUTES
1. The Constitution of India, 1950
2. The Government of India Act, 1915
3. The Hindu Succession Act, 1955
4. The Indian Succession Act, 1925
5. The Indian Succession (Amendment) Act, 1939
6. The Indian Succession (Amendment) Act, 1991
7. The Indian Succession (Amendment) Bill, December 1991
8. The Parsi Succession Act, 1865
9. The Parsi Chattels Real Act of 1837
10. The Regulating Act, 1773
OFFICIAL REPORT
The Law Commission of India, 110th Report, ‘The Indian Succession Act, 1925’
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1. Chowdhury & Sharay, Indian Succession Act, 1925, (8th Ed., 1993), N. M. Tripathi Pvt. Ltd., Bombay 
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