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Followers of Meher Baba are people who have devoted their life to spiritual master Meher Baba. This is a list of mandali, close followers, and family members of Meher Baba who were physically with him during his lifetime and remained devoted to him all their lives.
Mehera Jehangir Irani – "Radha"
Shireen Sheriar Irani or Shireenmai (Baba's Mother – "Memo")
Sheriar Mundegar Irani or Shah-yar Moondegar Irani or Sheriarji (Baba's Father – "Bobo")
Beheram F. Irani (first disciple Behramji – "Buasaheb" or "Barrister")
Dr. Abdul Ghani Munsiff (Baba's boyhood friend – "Ghani")
Feramroz Hormsuji Dadachanji (Baba's first secretary – "Chanji")
Moreshwar Ramchandra Dhakephalkar (Began as teacher in Hazrat Babajan School - "Dhake")
Rustom Irani (Pendu's and Naja's father – "Masaji")
Sanjeevani Moreshwar Dhakephalkar (Dhake's wife)
Munshi Rahim (devout Muslim in Kasba Peth – "Munshiji")
Naval C. Talati (influential person in Bombay)
Khak Saheb (Manzil-e-Meem and Poona)
Jamshed Sheriar Irani (Baba's elder brother, died in 1927)
Walter and Hedi Mertens – Switzerland
Khodadad Farhad Irani (Manzil-e-Meem – "Nervous")
Sampath Aiyangar (devout Hindu – circle member in Madras, India)
Swamiji (Vedic Pandit)
Arjun Supekar (owned paan–tobacco shop in Kasba Peth)
Kondiram (Hindu disciple in Manzil-e-Meem)
Sayyed Jamadar (Poona and Manzil-e-Meem)
Kaikhushru Keki Irani (boyhood friend – "Lattoos")
Faredoon Masa (Uncle, married to Shirinmai's sister Dowla)
Khan Saheb Kaikhushru Irani (donated all Meherabad land)
Biharilal (lived in Meherabad as mandali, late 1920s)
Kaikhushru Masa (Soonamasi's husband – Bombay)
Kunjbihari Choubey (translated Baba's Discourses into Hindi)
Manek Ranji (old devotee in Rahuri, near Nasik, India)
Sadhu Christian Leik (Estonian disciple – Meherabad 1920s)
Nadirsha N. Dastur (lived in Meherabad as mandali late 1920s)
Chowdhari (Kasba Peth and a cook in Manzil-e-Meem)
Abdur Rehman (Manzil-e-Meem – "Barsoap")
Dowlat Padir (Meher Ashram student 1927)
Lewis Charles Nelhams (first Christian mandali, died 1925)
Garrett Elsden Fort (Hollywood screen play writer – suicide 1937)
Jamboo Mama (Beheramji's maternal uncle – Poona)
Quentin Tod (London actor, died of malnutrition in 1947)
Sohrabji M. Desai (Gujarati literary scholar – Navsari, India)
Gangaram Pawar (Hindu disciple in Manzil-e-Meem – "Ajoba" )
Ahmed Khan Gavai (Muslim disciple in Manzil-e-Meem)
Tehemtan (eldest son of Naoroji and Bachamai Dadachanji)
Khodadad Moondegar Irani (Sheriar's elder brother – Iran)
Shah Khodadad (Baba's cousin, 1st son of uncle Khodadad)
Pulad Khodadad (Baba's cousin, 2nd son of uncle Khodadad)
Swami Bhabhanand (suicide in 1941 from guilt for murder)
Nusserwan Kerawala (Banu Satha's husband)
Dr. Y. G. Karkal (medical physician who worked with the poor in hospital at Meherabad, 1920s; died in Meherabad, 1927)
Genu Chambhar (Prem Ashram boy, liberated in 1929)
John (Meher Ashram student – Christian)
Ram Nath (Meher Ashram student – Hindu)
Bala Supekar (brother of Arjun Supekar – Lonavla, India)
Ali Akbar Jr. (Persian Prem Ashram Boy, renamed "Majnun")
Abdulla Pakrawan (Prem Ashram boy – "Chhota Baba")
Sohrabji Vakil (Parsi devotee from Surat)
Faredoon Irani (Baidul's son – Meher Ashram student)
Beheram Irani (Baidul's son – died young in Iran, 1930s)
Hormazdiar Irani (Baidul's son – died young in Iran, 1930s)
Bapu Ghante (Brahmin in Poona and Manzil-e-Meem)
Kashinath (the laundryman at Manzil-e-Meem – "Kashiya")
Lala Pathan (watchman in Ranchi, Nasik and Meherabad)
Chintaman Rao (devotee from Ahmednagar)
Beheram M. Desai (Mansari's father – Navsari)
Ardeshir N. Desai (Keki Desai's father – Delhi)
Manekji Confectioner (Kaka Baria's sister's husband)
N. Namdar Dastur (Parsi – worked in Meher Ashram school)
Rustom Dinyar (lived as mandali at Meherabad, late 1920s)
Bhausaheb (Dattu Mehendarge's father)
Rashid Khusroo Irani (Meher Ashram boy – Jaffrabad, Iran)
Jamshed Beheram Sheermard (Baidul's father–in–law – Iran)
Sheermard Khorband Irani (Prem Ashram boy from Iran)
Esfandiar Vesali (Prem Ashram boy from Iran)
Sohrab Jehangir Irani (Parsi from Iran)
Khan Bahadur Pudumji (influential person in Bombay)
Palanji Motiwala (close friend of Papa Jessawala's – Jabalpur, India)
Motabava Khajotia (elderly Jessawala family friend – Nagpur, India)
Naoroji R. Satha (Gaimai Jessawala's saintly father – Nagpur)
Merwan Kaikhushru Irani (member of Kaikhushru family)
Golvadwala Sohrabji Irani (Masaji's cousin – "the Old Man")
Golvadwala's son (died young)
Dhunjibhoy Kerawala (Jal Kerawala's father – Nagpur)
Sakkur (faithful servant in Prem Ashram)
Beheram Rustom Salengi (Baba's personal servant)
Ardeshir Khodaram Irani (Meher Ashram schoolboy)
Rustom B. Irani (Bomanji's brother – Karachi)
Kaikhusroo (owner of an ice cream shop Baba frequented)
Hormuzd Boman Irani (Pilamai's husband – Karachi)
Kasam (Ramjoo Abdulla's son – died young)
Faredoon Irani (Dowla Mondi's son – Poona)
Otto Billo (father of Irene Billo in Switzerland)
Rustom Jehangir Irani (Baily's brother – Poona)
Sohrab Rustom Irani (Sailor's brother – Poona)
Bejanji Ramji (friend of Soma Desai – Navsari, India)
Dr. K. Daruwala (medical physician in Meher Ashram)
Jamshed Mehta (friend of Mahatma Gandhi – Karachi)
Sadashiv Patel's uncle (Hindu in Poona)
Jaka Seth (Ramjoo Abdulla's father–in–law – Lonavla, India)
Jamshed Irani (one of Baba's several cousins – Bombay)
Khodadad Masa (Uncle, married to Shireenmai's sister, Banu)
Arjun Supekar's father (Hindu in Kasba Peth)
Jal Kerawala (Papa Jessawala's friend – influential in Nagpur, India)
Jehangir Damania (Shireen Satha's husband – Ahmednagar)
Rustom L. Elavia (Gustadji Hansotia's cousin – Gujarat, India)
Sohrab Mavali (Parsi devotee)
Rashid Irani (Baba's cousin, son of Khodadad and Banu)
Hormusdiar Beheram Irani (Zoroastrian – Khooramshar, Iran)
Faredoon Irani (nicknamed by Baba – "Pedroo")
Babu (Anna 104's brother-in-law – Ahmednagar)
Dinshaw (Baba's Uncle, Shireenmai's brother – Poona)
Nonny Gayley (mother of Rano Gayley – New York)
Countess Nadine Tolstoy (Russian – married to Leo Tolstoy's son)
Mabel Ryan (ballet friend of Margaret Craske – London – "Firozeh")
Dowla Masi F. Irani (Shireenmai's sister – Lonavla, India)
Pilamasi R. Irani (Pendu's and Naja's mother – Poona)
Kakubai Deorukhar (Vishnu's mother – Poona)
Naja B. Irani (Sailor's first wife – Kasba Peth – "Najudi")
Bachamai (Naoroji Dadachanji's wife – Bombay)
Jibboo Irshad (Ramjoo Abdulla's daughter – died young)
Freny Masi N. Driver (Padri's mother – Daulatmai's sister)
Yeshoda Gadekar (Gadekar's mother – Ahmednagar)
Kamlabai Dhakephalkar (Dhake's first wife – Ahmednagar)
Mrs. Kalemama (wife of Kalemama – Ahmednagar)
Christine McNaughton (Scottish girl, came to India in 1933. Killed during a German air raid on London in 1941)
Shanti (daughter of Kaka Shahane – Ahmednagar)
Gita S. Patel (Sadashiv's wife – Poona)
Banubai M. Confectioner (Kaka Baria's sister – very devout)
Banubai Lakdawala (Nargis Kotwal's paternal aunt – Bombay)
Khorshed Pastakia (devoted Parsi – Karachi, Pakistan)
Banu Irani (Baidul's daughter – died young)
Zohra Pirzade (Sayyed Saheb's wife – Nasik, India)
Daughter of Sayyed Saheb (died young)
Mrs. Burjor Dahiwala (neighbor near Manzil-e-Meem ashram)
Dhakubai (Arangaon villager – willed her property to Baba)
Khodabad Circlewala's daughter (Dairyman's wife – Bombay)
Mehera Khodaram Irani (wife of cinema owner – Nasik, India)
C. D. Deshmukh's mother (devout Hindu – Nagpur, India)
Shirinbai Sohrab Irani (Mehera J. Irani and Padri's saintly maternal grandmother – Poona)
Bhikaiji N. Hansotia (Gustadji's mother – Gujarat, India)
Dhondibai (Baba's nanny when he was infant – Poona)
Sita (worked as cook at Meherabad – Arangaon villager)
Helena Davy (mother of Herbert and Kitty Davy – London)
Dinamai Satha (wife of Jemi Satha – Ahmednagar)
Shanta (Meherabad servant, wife of Kashiya – laundryman)
Sunder Bhagaji (loyal servant at Meherabad)
Bhikaiji Desai (member of large Parsi family – Navsari)
Baijimai Boman Desai (Soma Desai's sister – Navsari)
Jagannath Gangaram Jakkal – "Anna 104"
Anna Jakkal (wife of Anna 104 – Ahmednagar)
Rawatmani (Aunt, wife of Shireenmai's brother, Dinshaw)
Chingutai (Kalemama's daughter – Ahmednagar)
Pila Homi (Homi Satha's wife – Ahmednagar)
Khorshedmai Damania (nicknamed "Fuimai" – means "Father's sister")
Maina Patel (Sadashiv's daughter – died young)
Jeejabai (Sadashiv Patel's mother–in–law – Poona)
Gustadji (or Gustadjee) Hansotia (Baba's best friend and "Shadow"
– God-realized upon death in 1958 at Meherazad)
Daulatmai (Mehera J. and Freiny J. Irani's saintly mother)
Gulmai K. Irani (Baba's "Spiritual mother" – Ahmednagar)
Rustom K. Irani (Adi K. Irani's elder brother, hermit in Rishikesh)
Dr. Nilu Godse (killed in Udtara auto accident, 1956 – died in Baba's physical presence,
as he wished)
Vishnu Deorukhar (under Baba's guidance since teenager – reincarnation of the French Emperor Napoleon I)
Rustom Jafrabadi – "Baidul"
Khodadad K. Irani – "Asthma"
Khodadad Rustom Irani, (nicknamed "Khodu," then "Sailor")
Kim Tolhurst – "Ayisha"
Gabriel Pascal (Hollywood film producer, Baba's "Phoenix" and "Panther")
Margaret Scott
Malcolm Schloss (poet – co–founder with Jean Adriel of Meher Mount in Ojai, California in 1948)
Princess Norina Matchabelli (co–founder with Elizabeth Patterson of the Meher Spiritual Center in 1945 – "Noorjehan" meaning "light of the world")
Terry Duce (Ivy O. Duce's husband – big oil businessman)
Will and Mary Backett (Baba's "Archangels" – England)
Charles B. Purdom (literary scholar, biographer and editor)
Douglas Eve (friend of Charles Purdom in London)
Warren Healey (printed literature about Baba in America)
Beryl Williams (New Yorker, distributed Baba's photographs in America sent from India by sister Mani)
Elizabeth Chapin Patterson (Founder of the Meher Spiritual Center – "Dilruba")
Kitty Davy – "Saroja"
Zillah Brown (Kitty Davy's niece – "Mumtaz")
Margaret Craske – "Zulekha"
Delia DeLeon – "Leyla"
Ruth White – Baba's "Old Soldier"
Jane Barry Haynes
Dr. Charles C. Haynes, (Dr. of Divinity and senior scholar of Vanderbilt University's First Amendment Center)
Wendy Haynes
John Haynes
Ann Conlon
Darwin and Jean Shaw
Phyllis and Lyn Ott (artists who met Baba in 1965, established residence on Meher Spiritual Center in 1966 – "Phylyn")
Tom and Yvonne Riley
Fred and Ella Winterfeldt – "Fredella"
Frank Eaton (original caretaker for the Meher Spiritual Center)
Harold and Virginia Rudd
Ralph and Stella Hernandez
Kecha & Henry Kashouty
Erwin and Edward Luck – Baba's "Divine Idiots"
Rick Chapman (nicknamed "Moochewalla" – means "the man with the mustache")
Robert Dreyfuss (Hitchhiked to India and met Baba in 1964)
Dana Field (eccentric dietician, slept on the floor with Baba's pictures on his bed)
John Bass (New York)
Irene Billo – Switzerland
Murshida Rabia Martin (first Murshida of Sufism in America, appointed by Hazrat Inayat Khan) brought the Sufis to Baba
Don E. Stevens (wrote introduction to God Speaks)
Murshida Ivy Oneita Duce (First Murshida of Sufism Reoriented)
Charmian Duce Knowles (Daughter of Ivy Duce)
Filis Frederick (editor of Awakener Magazine) and Adele Wolkin – "Filadele"
Agnes Barron (Lived at Meher Mount in Ojai, California)
Ludwig H. Dimpfl (Wrote glossary for God Speaks)
Herbert Davy (Brother of Kitty Davy)
Jeanne Robinson Adriel (Wrote the book, Avatar)
Manija Sheriar Irani (Baba's little sister, "Mani")
Dr. Goher Rustom Irani - "Dr. Goher"
Arnavaz N. Dadachanji
Mani Beheram Desai – "Mansari"
Meheru Rustom Irani
Naja Rustom Irani
Khorshed Kaikhushru Irani
Katie Rustom Irani (Goher's sister)
Madeleine E. Gayley or "Rano Gayley" (Artist. Painted Theme of Creation chart for God Speaks)
Anita De Caro Vieillard – "Chuchulu"
Roger Viellard (Chuchulu's husband)
Faredoon Nawrosjee Driver – "Padri"
Eruch Byramshaw Jessawala - "Eruch"
Byramshaw Jessawala (Eruch's father – "Papa Jessawala")
Gaimai Byramshaw Jessawala (Eruch's mother)
Meherwan Byramshaw Jessawala (Eruch's brother)
Manu Byramshaw Jessawala (Eruch's sister)
Meheru Jessawala (Eruch's sister)
Sam and Roshan Kerawalla
Adi Kaikhushru Irani (Baba's second secretary, known as Adi K. Irani)
Adi Sheriar Irani (Baba's brother "Adi, Jr.")
Gulu A. Irani (Adi Jr.'s first wife and Viloo's younger sister, who died after giving birth to Adi's son and Baba's nephew Dara Irani)
Freni Irani (Adi Jr.s second wife - Ahmednagar)
Ali Akbar Shapurzaman – "Aloba"
Aspandiar Rustom Irani – "Pendu"
Chintaman Vishnu Natu - "Bal"
Jal Sheriar Irani (Baba's brother)
Dolly and Jal Dastoor
Dr. Chakradkar Dharnidharr Deshmukh (Indian professor of philosophy and original editor of Meher Baba's Discourses, credited as Dr. C.D. Deshmukh)
Francis Brabazon (Australian poet, founded Avatar's Abode)
Bill Le Page – Australia
Dr. Harry Kenmore (Baba's chiropractor)
Vir Singh Kalchuri or "Bhau Kalchuri" (Baba's night watchman, author, and chairman of Avatar Meher Baba Trust – "Bhauji")
Dr. William Donkin (Wrote The Wayfarers about Baba's work with the masts)
Ramjoo Abdulla (Author of Ramjoo's Diaries)
A. R. Abdulla (Ramjoo Abdulla's son)
Tukaram Chawan (Mohammed the Mast)
Sarosh and Viloo Irani (Sarosh was elected mayor of Ahmednagar in 1952)
Dara and Amrit Irani (Dara is Baba's nephew and Meher Baba performed their wedding in 1968)
Rustom and Sorab Irani (Baba's twin nephews)
Nariman Dadachanji
Will & Mary Backett
Graham and Lettice Stokes (Baba stayed in their house in Greenwich Village in 1932)
Keki and Freiny Nalavala
Naosherwan Nalavala (editor of The Glow – "Anzar")
Parmeshwari Dayal Nigam (Hamirpur – "Pukar")
Keshav Narayan Nigam – Hamirpur
Dr. Ram Gundo Ginde (famous Bombay surgeon who wrote Baba's death certificate)
Minoo Kharas
Eruchshaw – "Pesu"
Ruano Bogislav – "The Eagle"
Marion Florsheim – "Energy"
Tex Hightower
Bili Eaton
Sylvia Gaines
Mildred Kyle
Laura and Lee Delavigne (Sufis – Baba's "neighbors")
Kaikobad Feram Dastur (Parsi priest, God-realized at time of death)
Andy and Peggy Muir
Kaikhushru J. Pleader (Kept in a room for two and a half years only on milk. God-realized at time of death.)
Savak and Nargis Kotwal
Savak and Nargis Kotwal's family, Hilla, Najoo and Adi
Soli Kotwal (brother of Savak Kotwal – Bombay)
Venkoba Rao
Kaka Baria
Kaka Shahane
Valu Pawar
Slamson (Gustadji's brother)
Krishna Nair
Amrathlal K. Deshi
Jim and Rhoda Mistry
Adi and Rhoda Dubash
Anna Kale
Murli Kale
Chhagan
Pandurang S. Deshmukh (whom Baba called Pandoba)
Feram B. Workingboxwala
Bhagubai (Jamadar's wife)
Dowla (Baidul's daughter)
Kakubai Deorukhar
Jangle Master
Muktabai (Jangle's wife)
Naggu (Meheru's sister)
Nargis (Savak's wife)
Pilamai Hormuzd
Radhabai (Sidhu's wife)
Sarwar (Baidul's daughter)
Shantabai (Chhagan's wife)
Silla (Pilamai's daughter)
Soltoon (Baidul's wife)
Soonamasi Engineer (Mother of Dolly Dastur)
Soonamasi Irani (Mother of Small Khorshed)
Small Khorshed
Bala Tambat
Ramchandra Bapu Kale – "Kalemama"
Kuppuswami
Lala Kamble
Ramchander Gaikwad
Sidhu Kamble
Rama, Sheela, and Mehernath Kalchuri
Shatrugna Kumar
Edward (Ned) and Dorothea (Dottie) Foote
Elizabeth Sacalis
Deirdre Eaton
Virginia Gloor Sadowsky
Donald Mahler
Viola Slayton Farber
Peter Saul
Mik Hamilton (met Baba in 1966 after traveling for years on the road)
Gulnar and Jehangu Sukhadwalla (Baba's niece and her husband
Sam Cohen
Edith Bradbury
Fred Marks
Robert and Yvonne Antoni
Andreé Aron
Alfredo and Consuella de Sides
Bunty Kelly Bernstein
Bernice Ivory
Leatrice Shaw Johnston
Hoshang Bharucha
Cowas Vesuna
Phillipe Dupuis
Meher Baba Quotes Used by Permission of Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.