Parsistan down under

Wjat do you think of this?

Somewhere around 800 a Parsi trading vessel on its way from India to the Spice Islands is blown off course ending up on the coast of Australia. On board is a scion of a prominent Parsi merchant family from [Bombay] named Rustam?. Having a dream of a country where his people can live in freedom and independence this young man manages to interest enough members of his family and their business relations in his community for a exploratory voyage that discovers the [Swan] river and the site of [Perth]. He then manages to raise the money to set up a colony there. Over the next couple of decades a thousand or so Zoroastrians a year are discreetly brought from Persia to the new homeland. By 900, when the Muslim world is cottoning on to what's going on, a colony of around 100.000 is established in SW-Australia.
 

Leo Caesius

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I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Parsi community in Bombay and Gujarat dates to the 10th c. at the earliest.

An alternative scenario might have Zoroastrians fleeing from Iran to Oman, and from there to Yemen, and from there to Ethiopia, and so on - following in the footsteps of the Lemba, who are apparently descended from Yemenite Jewish traders.
 
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