The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, India
The Parsis, a community of Iranian descent, are an important ethno-religious minority group in India. Over the past few decades this group has shown a sharp numerical decline. The Parsis in India are endogamous and children of women married outside the community are traditionally not accepted within...
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| author | Zubin Shroff Marcia C Castro |
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| description | The Parsis, a community of Iranian descent, are an important ethno-religious minority group in India. Over the past few decades this group has shown a sharp numerical decline. The Parsis in India are endogamous and children of women married outside the community are traditionally not accepted within the fold. This paper appraises the potential role of female intermarriage in Parsi population decline. Population projections were made under various assumptions of fertility and inter-marriage scenarios. Results show that given current fertility, acceptance of children of intermarried women would have a negligible impact on stemming the population decline, which is chiefly driven by extremely low fertility. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-edfbfe27b2dd46fbbb58c1fd9fcced4b2022-12-22T01:14:48ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712011-08-012517The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, IndiaZubin ShroffMarcia C CastroThe Parsis, a community of Iranian descent, are an important ethno-religious minority group in India. Over the past few decades this group has shown a sharp numerical decline. The Parsis in India are endogamous and children of women married outside the community are traditionally not accepted within the fold. This paper appraises the potential role of female intermarriage in Parsi population decline. Population projections were made under various assumptions of fertility and inter-marriage scenarios. Results show that given current fertility, acceptance of children of intermarried women would have a negligible impact on stemming the population decline, which is chiefly driven by extremely low fertility.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol25/17/ |
| spellingShingle | Zubin Shroff Marcia C Castro The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, India Demographic Research |
| title | The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, India |
| title_full | The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, India |
| title_fullStr | The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, India |
| title_full_unstemmed | The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, India |
| title_short | The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, India |
| title_sort | potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the parsis of mumbai india |
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