User:Captain Killy/Sandbox Maneckji Limji Hataria
19th-century Indian Zoroastrian scholar and social activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maneckji Limji Hataria (1813–1890), was an Indian Parsi-Zoroastrian scholar and civil rights activist, who took up the cause of the Zoroastrians of Iran. Through his work was an community organizer and advocate in Iran, Hataria founded the first Anjoman-i- Zartoštīān (Society of Zoroastrians) in Iran; anjomans of this sort would go on to become a popular form of civic organization among Zoroastrians and other Iranians. Hataria is referred to as Mānekǰī Ṣāḥeb in Persian sources, and was given the local Sufi honorific of Darvīš-e Fānī by residents of Kerman[1].