Which of the following statements regarding 'Navroz' (Nowruz) is correct?
It is the Persian New Year celebrated on the Spring Equinox, introduced in India by Ghiyasuddin Balban.
Navroz, also spelt Nowruz, literally translates as 'new day' and marks the traditional Persian or Iranian New Year, observed for thousands of years across the Iranian cultural world.
It is celebrated on the Spring Equinox, around 20–21 March, the moment when day and night are of nearly equal length and the sun crosses the celestial equator, which makes it a solar rather than a lunar festival.
This directly contradicts the option calling it a lunar festival of the Buddhist Himalayan community, since Navroz is neither lunar nor Buddhist in origin.
In India the festival was introduced by the Delhi Sultanate ruler Ghiyasuddin Balban, who brought Persian court customs into the Sultanate, and it is chiefly observed today by the Parsi and Shia communities.
It is not a monsoon festival of the Mughal courts, because it falls in spring and predates the Mughals, so that option fails on both season and history.
Nor does it mark a Southern Indian harvest dedicated to the Sun God, which describes festivals like Pongal rather than the Persian New Year.
Hence the correct statement is that It is the Persian New Year celebrated on the Spring Equinox, introduced in India by Ghiyasuddin Balban.
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