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Word: manekshaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
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...Parsis have traditionally influenced In dia well out of proportion to their numbers. Prosperous, cosmopolitan, literate, they dominate today the business community of Bombay. Industrialist J.R.D. Tata, whose steel mills constitute India's largest privately owned enterprise, is a Parsi; so are General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, one of India's top military leaders, and Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Parsi girls for the last three years have won the title of Miss India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: India's Prosperous Parsis | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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