TY  - CHAP
ID  - 6161
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/dhalla_saga_soul
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai, The
T2  - Dastur Dhalla, the Saga of a Soul: Autobiography of Shams-ul-ulama Dastur Dr. Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla
JF  - 
JA  - 
A1  - Dhalla,Maneckji Nuserwanji
A2  - Sohrab H. J. Rustomji,Gool, translator
A2  - Sohrab H. J. Rustomji,Behram, translator
A3  - 
Y1  - 1975
Y2  - 1942
VL  - Chapter 68
IS  - 
SP  - 722
EP  - 728
M2  - 
PB  - Dastur Dr. Dhalla Memorial Institute
CY  - Karachi
M1  - 
M3  - Biographies; Excerpts
SN  -         
LA  - English
L3  - 
DO  - 
U1  - 
U2  - 
U3  - 
AB  - Overview of the Faith, and the author's interactions with Bahá'ís in the early 1900s. (Navjote is the initiation ceremony where a child receives his/her ceremonial garments and first performs the Zoroastrian ritual.)
N1  - Complete text is online at avesta.org/dhalla/saga.htm. PDF below from Microsoft Word version prepared by Mike Thomas (2022).  See also Appendix F: Indian Zoroastrians and the Bahá'í Faith in Zoroastrian Conversions to the Bahá'í Faith in Yazd, Iran, pp. 102-104 (Maneck, 1983).
C1  - 
KW  - 1900s
KW  - Biography
KW  - Conversion
KW  - India
KW  - Iran (documents)
KW  - Karachi, Pakistan
KW  - Mumbai, India
KW  - New York, USA
KW  - Opposition
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Pune, India
KW  - Tehran, Iran
KW  - United States (documents)
KW  - Zoroastrianism
ER  -