Keywords: Seven Parsee women, grouped around a table, taken by an unknown photographer in Bombay in the 1860s.jpg en Seven Parsee women grouped around a table taken by an unknown photographer in the 1860s from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections The Parsees were descendants of Persians who fled to India in the seventh and eighth centuries to escape Muslim persecution They are Zoroastrian the religious system commonly known as fire-worship Their communities are concentrated in Maharashtra and Gujarat states especially in Bombay s 1860 http //www oldindianphotos in/2010_10_26_archive html author other versions Custom license marker 2015 01 08 PD-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Mumbai in the 1860s Parsi women from India 19th-century women of India |