Re: What is your ethnicity?
Reply #2 - February 28, 2009, 07:27 PM
I'm Indian, Gujarati. My mom's Bohra Muslim- she supposedly has Yemeni & Egyptian ancestry & definitely had Indian ancestry. Dad's Zoroastrian, at its zenith, the Zoroastrian faith was practiced in Azerbaijan, Iran & parts of Afghanistan, before Islam ousted it from all those places, so dad probably has Azerbaijani & Afghan ancestry, along with Iranian.
World renowned historian Will Durant"...the Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown..."