I read with interest "Unsung scholar” (Parsiana, December 21, 2020-January 6, 2021) on the historian Prof S. H. Hodivala (pictured). He had written an article in the Journal of the Iranian Association, Vol II, January 1914 titled "The traditional dates of Parsi history.”
The objects of the Iranian Association were to maintain the purity of the Zoroastrian religion and remove the excrescences that have gathered around it; to expose and counteract the effects of such teachings as tend to corrupt the religion of Zarathushtra by adding elements foreign to it that bring about the degeneration of a progressive and virile community......