{"id":2900,"date":"2016-03-15T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:46:04","slug":"little-known-parsi-aramgarh-rests-sam-bahadur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/little-known-parsi-aramgarh-rests-sam-bahadur\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Known Parsi Aramgarh that Rests Sam Bahadur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ooty<\/a>, a quaint town located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has earned the title of ‘Queen of Hills’ for a reason. Not only did it serve as a summer capital for the British in the olden times, but it is\u00a0also home to a coterie of Parsis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Ooty:<\/a>
Ooty: View from Top Picture Courtesy; Alex De Guzman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Pictures: Explore Ooty<\/a><\/p>\n

Ooty is home to India’s well-known Parsi, late Field Marshall, Sam Manekshaw<\/a>, popularly known as Sam Bahadur.\u00a0Maneckshaw’s connection with the Nilgiris<\/a>\u00a0 dates back to the 1950s when he was commandant of the Defense Services Staff College at Wellington, which is about 18kms from Ooty – where he bought land and built a house later in 1973.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A Young Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw Picture Courtesy: India.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Ooty’s association with the Parsis goes back to the 1800s when Seth Pestonji Nasserwanji Battliwalla, a Parsi merchant from Mumbai, moved to Ooty. It was Batliwala who inspired the slow migration of the Parsis from Mumbai and Gujarat when\u00a0they decided to make this beautiful heritage city, their home.<\/p>\n

Read: UNESCO’s\u00a0PARZOR Project<\/a><\/p>\n

It was also Batliwala who gifted a small land for the benefit of the Parsi Community on which Ooty’s first Parsi Aramgarh<\/a><\/em> (cemetery) was built. The first Parsi from Ooty who\u00a0was buried in this Aramgarh was Dinbai, wife of Pestonji Battliwalla, in 1878.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Parsi Aramgarh Picture Courtesy: http:\/\/parsikhabar.net\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One hundred and thirty years later, in 2008, Manekshaw,whose career spanned almost four decades, who saw five wars, including World War II and the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, was laid to rest at this Parsi Aramgarh, next to his beloved wife, Silloo Both. \u00a0Last year in Ooty, during a\u00a0heritage walk organized by Go Heritage Runs<\/a> and Make Ooty Beautiful<\/a> saw a number of people pay tribute to this legendary war hero. \u00a0And that’s the\u00a0mystical\u00a0beauty of this beautiful hill station. The more you explore is the more you unravel its \u00a0charms and secrets.\u00a0How else would you know about this little piece\u00a0of Parsi history\u00a0in this petite heritage town?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ooty’s association with the Parsis goes back to 1800s. More recently, the late Field Marshall, Sam Manekshaw also has a connection with this historic town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2538,"featured_media":2903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,133],"tags":[354,134,353,352],"yoast_head":"\nParsis and their Ooty connection<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ooty's association with the Parsis goes back to 1800s. 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