An 18-year-old member of this religious group allegedly encountered a caravan of the “Masters of the Heart.” After viewing a set of facsimiles of a manuscript chained to the wall near the Bodleian (“BOD-lee-in”) Library’s entrance, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil (“yah-SANT onk-TEEL”) visited these people in the midst of a controversy over an intercalary month in the Kadmi calendar. A leader of these people legendarily dissolved sugar in a glass of milk to demonstrate to a ruler how these people would enrich his land. A “science of ecstasy” practiced by the Ilm-e-Khshnoom school of these people originated in the city of Surat. This ethnoreligious group’s members historically made use of Doongerwadis (“DOON-ger-WAH-dees”), such as one on Malabar Hill in Gujarat (“GOO-juh-rot”), in a practice that has largely declined due to a national vulture crisis. For 10 points, name this ethnoreligious group who place their dead on Towers of Silence throughout India, per the tradition of Zoroastrianism. ■END■
ANSWER: Parsis (“PAR-sees”) [or Parsees; prompt on Indian Zoroastrians or Pakistani Zoroastrians until “Zoroastrianism” is read; prompt on Persians or Iranians or Iranis]
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