The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of Mumbai, India

Zubin Shroff and Márcia C. Castro
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Zubin Shroff: Harvard University
Márcia C. Castro: Harvard University

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 25, issue 17, 545-564

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: fertility; India; intermarriage; Parsis; Mumbai; population decline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.17

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