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Persian: ایرانی | |
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Languages | |
Zoroastrian Dari, Hindi, Other Persian Dialects | |
Religion | |
Zoroastrianism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Parsis |
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The Iranis (Persian: ایرانی; meaning Iranian) are an ethno-religious community in the Indian subcontinent; they descend from the Zoroastrians who emigrated from Iran to British India in the 19th and 20th centuries.[1] They are culturally, linguistically, ethnically and socially distinct from the Parsis, who – although also Zoroastrians – immigrated to the Indian subcontinent from Greater Iran many centuries prior, starting with the Islamic conquest of Persia.