Arrival in Sanjan Zoroastrian refugees fleeing from religious persecution in their native land Iran, came to India about 1,200 years ago. Their descendants are called Parsis. According to Parsi folklore, the immigrants landed on the west coast of India and spent the first nineteen years on the island of Diu. After that they set sail again and landed this time in Sanjan also on the west coast of India, either in the year 936AD or in 716AD(being debated). The story goes that upon landing at Sanjan on the shores of Gujarat, the Parsi refugees pleaded with Jadhav Rana, the then King of Gujarat for refuge. There is an often repeated story that the King had doubts about the intentions of the asylum-seekers, and gave a glass full of milk to the chief Parsi priest, indicating that their land is full and that there was no place for outsiders or new settlers. It is said that to remove the King's doubts about the intentions of the refugees, the priest took the glass of milk full to the brim, and added sugar to it. While doing so, he assured the King that just as the sugar blended into the milk without displacing any of it so too would he and his people blend into and sweeten the land. The King was apparently impressed by this assurance, and then granted Parsis permission to settle in Gujarat. Re-enactment of kisse-Sanjan Commemorative Column installed in 1920