Nawayath
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 102 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5142-7271-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nawayaths (also spelled as Navayath or Nawayat) are a small Muslim community concentrated mostly in coastal Uttara Kannada.The Nawayaths are also known as the Indo-Iranians as their ancestors are from Iran. Every nawaythi family has a surname ending with'Irani'.Mostly all Nawayaths are Muslims but during migration some of the nawayaths had become Zoroastrians.These zoroastrians then migrated to Mumbai (Bombay ) and Gujrat and settled there .Even today the Muslim Nawayath and the Zoroastrians follow the same customs and still have the love for their country of origin ;Iran. The nawayaths speak "Nawayathi" which is a mixture of Parsi and Urdu.Today most of the Nawayaths are found in Bangalore andMysore , Karnataka . Victor D’ Souza in his book "Navayaths of Kanara"(1955). Anticipating Khalidi, D'Souza relates Navayaths to Iranians based on the influence of the Persian language on the language spoken by the Navayaths and Persian elements in...