EAST MEETS WEST
INDIAN PRIEST IN LONDON The jolliest priest in the world was in Lor don last month. He is the High Priest of India's 400,000 Parsees, and his name is Sardar Khan Bahadur Dastur Nosherwan Kaikebad. In restaurants people stared at him in his white robes and glittering gold shawl. He has merry dark eyes and a neatly trimmed black beard. He explained his inordinately long name. " Sardar is a title conferred upon me by the King for supplying men and money during the war," he said. " Khan Bahadur is a title given me by the British Government, and Dastur is my religious title. It means archbishop or high priest. Nesherwan, my first name, means immortal, and Kaikebad was an ancient Persian
king." The Sardar has 40 dioceses under his jurisdiction.
He said: " People think we worship the sun, fire and water, and the moon. That is not strictly correct. We worship an unknown invisible God who created these, and therefore we regard them as sacred symbols." He is keenly interested in the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements in India, and his pride is his garden at Poona.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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191EAST MEETS WEST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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