1907. As Tata Steel began to manufacture steel, and in Surat, the Indian National Congress split into moderates and radicals, a momentous priestly change of guard occurred. A most illustrious Zoroastrian High Priest, who had occupied the dasturi (seat of divine authority) for 34 years, suddenly passed away at 50. His son, only 13, had the white cotton pichhori (white belt/girdle) bestowed upon him at his father’s uthamna. His dasturi was the most ancient and he was primus inter pares (first amongst equals) amongst the other high priests of India. In 1578, its first occupant, as an emissary to the......