Rehnumai Maz’dayasan Sabha or Religious Reform Association

• The Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha (Religious Reform Association) was founded in 1851 by a group of English educated Parsis for the “regeneration of the social conditions of the Parsis and the restoration of the Zoroastrian religion to its pristine purity”.
• It was founded by Nauroji Furdonji, Dadabhai Naoroji, S.S. Bengalee and others.
• They started a journal Rast Goftar, for the purpose of social-religious reforms among the Parsis.
• They also played an important role in the spread of education, especially among girls.
• In the social sphere, attempts were made to uplift the status of Parsi women through removal of the purdah system, raising the age of marriage and education.