The Girl Guides groups of three Parsi schools are a 100 years old
Farrokh Jijina
Less than a decade after Indian lasses were permitted to join the Girl Guides movement in India in 1916, three Parsi managed schools started their own programs: Nagpur’s J. N. Tata Parsi Girls’ School (Tata) in 1923, Bombay’s Alexandra Girls’ English Institution (Alexandra) in 1924 and Karachi’s Mama Parsi Girls’ School (Mama) "sometime in the 1920s.”
When the movement first started in India in 1911 at the Christ Church School in Jabalpur, only girls of European descent were eligible to join, noted veteran scouter Pervez Irani. Guide companies later banded under the All India Girl Guides Association and in 1916 the......