By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
Ace Bollywood actor Boman Irani recently offered his readiness to hold peace talks, albeit jokingly, with President Trump on social media. But after his video went viral, some fans started tracing roots of Boman Irani, Smriti Irani and Aruna Irani in India especially in Mumbai.
According to the Google, Iranis in India are a small, distinct ethno-religious community of Zoroastrians who migrated from Iran to India during the 19th and 20th centuries to escape religious persecution.
The Wikipedia said the Iranis are an ethno-religious community in the Indian subcontinent; they descend from the Zoroastrians who emigrated from Qajar-era Iran to India in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are culturally, linguistically, ethnically and socially distinct from the Parsis, who – although also Zoroastrians – immigrated to the Indian subcontinent from Greater Iran many centuries prior, starting with the Islamic conquest of Persia.
The Parsis and Iranis are considered legally distinct. A 1909 obiter dictum relating to the Indian Zoroastrians observed that Iranis (of the now defunct Bombay Presidency) were not obliged to uphold the decisions of the then regulatory Parsi Panchayat. Some of the Irani community speaks an ethnolect called Zoroastrian Dari whereas most Parsis typically speak Gujarati.
However, the two communities increasingly intermarry and are said to have been “integrated well” with each other.
Although the term ‘Irani’ is first attested during the Mughal era, most Iranis are descended from immigrants who left Iran and migrated to the Indian subcontinent during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At the time, Iran was ruled by the Qajars and religious persecution of Zoroastrians was widespread. Some Iranis still speak Persian and the Dari dialects of the Zoroastrians of those provinces. Iranis are generally seen as a subset of the wider Zoroastrian community.
The Iranis predominantly are settled in the western parts of India.