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'''Dr. Sir Ervad Jivanji Jamshedji Modi''' (1854-1933), who also carried the title of Shams-ul-Ulama, was a prominent [[Zoroastrian]] [[India]]n priest, scholar and community leader in Bombay. One of "the most decorated priests in history",<ref name="vohuman2009zaz">{{Citation | title=Shams-Ul-Ulama Dr. Sir Ervad Jivanji Jamshedji Modi | access-date=2009-07-22 | publisher=Vohuman.org | url=http://www.vohuman.org/Article/Modi,%20Jivanji%20Jamshedji.htm | quote=''... the most decorated priest in history ... "the greatest living authority on the ancient history and customs of the Parsis" ...''}}</ref> he wrote over 70 books, produced over 120 scholarly papers on Zoroastrian history, traveled and researched into Zoroastrian affairs extensively and was instrumental in organizing the [[Parsis|Parsi community in India]].<ref name="vohuman2009zaz" /><ref name="zaov2009uag">{{Citation|title=Zoroastrian Heroes: Jivanji Jamshedji Modi |access-date=2009-07-22 |publisher=Zoroastrian Association of Victoria |url=http://www.zav.org.au/pages/heroes/jivanji.htm |quote=''... born on October 26th 1854 into a priestly family ... Secretary of the Bombay Parsi Panchayat for 37 years (1893 –1930) ... instrumental in having a Memorial Column a [[Sanjan Stambh]] erected at Sanjan, to commemorate the Sanjan landing of Zarthustis on Indian soil ...'' |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912062837/http://www.zav.org.au/pages/heroes/jivanji.htm |archive-date=2009-09-12 }}</ref> During his lifetime he had been called "the greatest living authority on the ancient history and customs of the Parsis."<ref name="vohuman2009zaz" /><br />
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==Honors and awards==<br />
* B.A. (Bombay University, 1876)<br />
* Fellow of the University of Bombay (1887)<br />
* Dip. Litteris et Artibus (Sweden, 1889)<br />
* Shams-Ul-Ulama (Government of British India, 1893)<br />
* Officier d’Academie (France, 1898)<br />
* Officier de l’Instruction Publique (France, 1903)<br />
* Ph.D. (Honoris Causa, Heidelberg, 1912)<br />
* Honorary Correspondent of the Archaeological Department of the Government of India (1914)<br />
* C.I.E. (1917); Campbell Medalist B.B. Royal Asiatic Society (1918)<br />
* Honorary Member of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (1923)<br />
* Chevalier de Légion d'honneur (France, 1925)<br />
* Officier de Croix de Merit (Hungary 1925)<br />
* British Knighthood (1930)<br />
* LL.D. (Honoris Causa, Bombay University 1931)<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/view/collections/c-21.html Collection of Works by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi - Online]<br />
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