Keikhosrow Shahrokh () (1864 in Kerman, Sublime State of Persia – 1939) was the mastermind and designer of the

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for

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at his burial site in the city of Tus. He is often credited with sparking the Persian nationalist movement which took place under the

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. Shahrokh helped reinstate

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pride in Iran through excavations of ancient relics near the Iranian city of Kerman. During his tenure in Iran's Revival Party he bolstered

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nationalism with numerous speeches and rallies across

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, Kerman, and

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. As elected representative of the Zoroastrian community, he was an active member of the Iranian parliament. He is best known for his role in the 1925 transition of the official calendar from the Islamic calendar of Hejri Ghamarei to the Iranian civil calendar, also known as ''Hejri shamsi''. Shahrokh often credited his pride of Persian descent to his hometown of Kerman which avoided

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over thousands of years due to natural barriers such as the Lut desert and nearby mountains. Shahrokh was distantly related to Dinshah Irani, the Indian lawyer and benefactor of the

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communities of both India and Iran. Shahrokh and Irani shared a late 18th-century ancestor, most of whose children migrated to India, and from which Dinshah Irani's family descended. Shahrokh was a scion of another branch, descending from the elder son - who had remained in Iran - of that ancestor.

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http://www.zoroastrian.org.uk/vohuman/Article/Keikhosrow%20Shahrokh.htm https://weblog.czc.org/2018/10/keikhosrow-shahrokh.html https://amordadnews.com/en/87072/

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{{Iran-bio-stub People from Kerman 1864 births 1929 deaths Iranian Zoroastrians Members of the 2nd Iranian Majlis Members of the 3rd Iranian Majlis Zoroastrians Representatives in National Consultative Assembly Revival Party politicians People from Kerman province 19th-century Iranian politicians 20th-century Iranian politicians Members of the 5th Iranian Majlis

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