MARGINALIZED! - Europe's Indian-Origin Romani People |  

im romani and im still learning about my people and culture everyday super great video!!

Im Romani people 🇮🇳 Thenks you for video 👍 Our brothers and sisters living on our common land should know our history, because we are not only brothers and sisters in language and culture, but also in blood. My respect for you mister.

Im Romani (Sinti). My dna test found 37% South Asian. So Indian. After over 1000 years of migration and after 700 years of living in West European countries, I think that's still pretty much Indian dna?! I see a lot of similarities between my language, indian dialects, and even sanskrit. My hair are black - Mira bala hin kala Sun - Kham Moon - Tchon I go - Me jau I want/I love - Me kamau Go - ja Milk - Thud 5 Stones - panj bara My life - miru jipen/mu jipen Who is.. - kon hi.. Where is.. - kai hi.. Listen - Shun See/watch - dikh have to consider that our language has only been passed on orally for over 1000 years. Then it is clear that you pass it on as you hear it. This is how "main" became Me (Mei pronounced) Anyone interested in languages ​​and would like to exchange ideas is welcome to get in touch.

I’m Hungarian, Romanian, and Romani and I’m learning about all my cultures that I love so much ❤

I am a Roma gypsy from Italy , we are yet speaking Romani language, the only Indo-Aryan language spoken in Europe.

We gypsies came from acaint india .. at the time we hsd once a home our country to.. and we were called the untouchables we were warriors and rajput was our leader .. we have won many wars for india .. but whem islam after many many years trying to take india over when they did manage to take over india thats when we gypsies left and ever since we never came back .. and ever since that we became homeless race of ppl .. but we have each other and we are still here after centuries of hate killings slavery... our culture our music our language our people are still here .. and we an aciant race of humans .. im proud of my race ! And my indian background 🙏.. godbless everybody and india i love you brothers and sister's ❤ and by the way your story is very very accurate 👏🏼

Few years ago, when the Roma (Gypsy) Taxi driver in Frankfurt to my amazement almost understood my conversation with my wife in the native tongue of Rajasthan, a north western state in India, I decided to work on this and find out how. Since the Taxi Driver understood the language of Rajasthan, I went through the history of Rajasthan or Rajputana as it was originally called and discovered that there was a huge exodus of the tired soldiers of the army of great Rajput King Prithviraj Chauhan around 1050 AD who ,as the history says, fought 17 wars with Mohammed Ghauri. Most left with women folks leaving empty villages. Most Roma belong to the fine Rajput warrior caste and others were farmers called Jat who also were in the army. While the great king was keen on continuing battles, many soldiers did not want to fight more wars and stayed at home. For a Rajput staying at home during war was a stigma. They were taunted for staying home at the time of war. Therefore, as a folk song of Rajasthan says, they left their native land in groups. They left from no other part of India. Some went west and are called Gypsies or Roma now and some went down to south India where they still are in their red and yellow color clothes and with huge mustache. You can see them on google by clicking "Lambada in south India". I am from Rajasthan but live in south Indian city of Hyderabad and hence see Lambadas daily. I was further shocked again when our Gypsy (Lambada) maid mostly understood an old Hungarian Roma lady talking in Romani about Nazi atrocities on a BBC program on TV while I understood it by reading the English captions. Apparently, the two ladies 9000 miles away now spoke same language spoken about 1000 years ago in their land of origin. We being from Rajasthan still use many of their words. On the way to west, Roma took words from Persian like bibi and many other tongues including Greek (drost for road) and from Armenian and so on. Also, few joined them on the way from Sindh, another Indian province,now in Pakistan. They are still called Sinti within Roma and words like laklo, lakli, chavo are from Sindhi. They somehow lost their surnames of fine Rajput warrior clans. Roma may try to find surnames like Sisodia, Chauhan ,Shekhawat, Nainavat Rathore, etc. But they kept first Indian names until 19th century like Amos Bihari and his daughter Panna Cinkova, both great Roma musicians from Hungary. Panna meaning Emerald is a pure Rajasthani name not used in other parts of India. You may look in Google for “Panna Cinka ". If they were not Indians, why otherwise would they have Indian names in Europe in the year 1711? Today Roma use many of the words from Rajasthani (or Marwari) and Hindi, both of Sanskrit origin. Few are ek do trin nak(nose) bal(hair)angusth(finger) bersh(year) diwas(day) sassusussro ( mother and father in law, from rajasthani) saaloSali (brother and sister in law from Rajasthani) chora(boy) chori(girl) cior(chor, meaning thief)) gia sov, thalle, upralpurano (old ), dukh, kasht, tato, langhal(lame) maang, des, lajja and so on. About half are from Rajasthani and Hindi both of which originate from Sanskrit. I know hundreds. There are thousands. Luis Mori, another Roma has sent me a huge list of Romani words which I match with my Roma maid's vocabulary. Sometimes grammar has changed to European style, like we would say sov gia and Roma would say gia sov. Same meaning though. Has slept. Also, all Indian languages including today's Rajasthani has two yous, one for Junior and one for senior. Romani and the language of Lambada even today have only one you which is "tu" used for Juniors and for very close ones which must have been so 1000 years ago. Romani words are from pre-Muslim era in India and hence pure Sanskrit like hiv(him in Sanskrit) for snow or ice is used while we in India now say barf which is Persian. Please go to the following in RU-vid to see more. “Romani an Indian lost Language”ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UJvn7nLeZaI.html by Adriano, an Italian Roma from whom I have learned much and also“Roma girl from Kosovo goes to India.....”ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q6HfenInNEA.html All Roma had mustache which was necessary for Rajput warriors. Purity codes of Roma were till recently practiced in India like Roma breaking the plate if animal licked it. My mother used to give the plates to beggars if our dog ever licked it even once. Also, food once served on table but not eaten does not go back to Fridge or saved for eating later. That is why death rate within Roma during great European plague was so low as claimed by scholars. Roma had also carried our proverbs like "while choosing a daughter in law, believe your ears more than eyes” meaning reputation of the girl's family was more important than her beauty. Another common proverb is "If the road is crooked, you can't walk straight." Roma eventually lost their religion, quite understandably but Sara kali of southern France is a Hindu deity of Goddess kali favourite of Rajputs. The deity is immersed in water body every year like we do in India. The Vatican has not recognized this deity as it has no link to Christianity. Romani also has an unusual word"trishul" from Sanskrit and Hindi meaning a spear with three fingers. This spear is associated with Hindu God Mahadev or Shiva and the war cry of Rajputs Regiment in India till today is " Har har Mahadev". Please see on You tube "Dr. Ian Hancock: Keynote Address at Romani Studies Conference, UC Berkeley" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NTsqiP196Uw.html. Dr. Hancock who is a Roma makes very scholastic analysis of Romani history from European side. He successfully dismantles myths like Roma are old Jews or from Egypt or came from within the earth. He establishes that Roma indeed came from India.However he has not said much about which part of India are they from and which language from India they speak. He only mentions "Indian Language" while there is nothing like Indian Language. We have hundreds of languages. India had hundreds of independent kingdoms. Rajputana, as Rajasthan was called then had many kingdoms too. Prithviraj Chauhan was the king of Ajmer in central Rajasthan from whose army Roma came. He also links Romani with Sanskrit while truth is that Romani has words from Rajasthani and Hindi alone both of which originate from Sanskrit. Romani is made of languages which have Sanskrit base and directly from Sanskrit. There are many words in Romani which none else from India except those from Rajasthan will understand like tato meaning hot. He also says Roma are Doms who burn dead bodies which is certainly not true. Doms live about 1000 miles away from Rajasthan and are dark skinned. Many Roma have come to Delhi and Jaipur in Rajasthan to get their DNA tested and were doubly assured of their Rajasthan roots. Also, one may see on RU-vid " Romani Dances in India-Kalbelia "youtu.be/E- Y9sUl4i4Iof Rajasthan which is same as Flamingo dance of the Roma. Even the dress of the dancers are same. As a student in the US during seventies, I saw some slightly brown students speaking language somewhat familiar to me. They said they were new Roma migrants to the US from Spain but I did not know about Roma at that time. I have received many mails from some Roma stating Roma were Doms and untouchables from India and so on. This should not be true. First, there are no Doms in Rajasthan. Second, Roma who came to south still have mostly Rajput surnames or "Gotras" and very few Bhil (a jungle tribe, but soldiers too) surnames. Gotras or lineages dont change in India. Third, down trodden and timid would not venture leaving home to travel thousands of miles and fourth, Doms are very dark even for Indian standards while Roma are not. Fifth, Romani has many war related words including a word for prisoner of war as Dr. Hancock says. Only a martial clan would use and keep alive these words. There should be no doubt that Roma are our lost pral and Pena (We would say pra and behna). Hats off to them to keep the language and culture alive even after 50 generations while humanity in the entire world now melts away in two generations. I am in contact with many European Roma from whom I gather some new facts time to time. I have also gathered the above information from history of Rajasthan. ShriprakashLoya shree709@gmail.com

Nazi killed many Romani (Indian living in Europe) in many parts of Europe

It is very sad that most of indians don't know about them :(

Hi thank for the video ...I'm Romani too ....and everything u told in this story is pretty much true 👍....we are the lost children's off India 🇮🇳...our language culture and traditions are goes back to India 🇮🇳...I got load off Indian friends and Pakistanies too .... I can see the the exact same customs and life style and traditions in many things in life ..... India beautiful country ❤️ woud love to visit one day ...to see my homeland ❤ taven bachtale savore romange te Delo del zor bach sastiphen amare shavenca

Romany here from romania 🇷🇴 🙌

We r cheated by our own textbook writers who r still followings British history . They didn't mention these things even as facts.😭😭😭😭. Why they r not mentioning our glorious history. I first learnt these things in children's knowledge bank which is indian book written and sourced from different papers.

our government should first accept that romani people have indian ancestry , then we can think of raising issue of marginalisation

:( I am Roma and there live the largest racists in the Czech Republic 300,000 Roma, maybe more

My small request to international Indian tourists to visit our ROMANI cousins where they live,it will be a big honor 😇😇🙏🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

As an Indian, I love my Romani Brothers.... 🙏❤

My friend actually know a Romani Guy from Czech republic, my friend went to Prague in 2019. He had a brief chat with that Romani Guy. He told him how they are forced to do small works and became labours. Women are forced into prostitution. Romani are generally considered as thieves and socially discarded. That was doing cleaning works in various restaurants. He also told his grandparents used to say we are more or less indians and face discrimination due to their Skin colour. I still can't believe how much pain and problems they have to go through. My feelings goes out to all Romani people who are discriminated and oppressed 🙏

Can't Indian gov include them in the CAA list? It's so painful to see our brothers and sisters in such condition.😢

Elvis is my favourite singer. I am surprised to know about him.

I have never heard about this, its so interesting😲 wow im shook

Trivia : Lollipop is a derivative of Roma word- Lalli(red)+phab(fruit)

Gypsy brother and sister We are all Indian very glad to know your culture . Please follow old Indian Thinking . Om Namoh Shivaya

I have found them in Airports in Europe. I was very surprised how striking they look. They have black hair and very fair skin. Their dress is very colourful. They were the ghaghara like in Gujarat with lot of mirror work. Since i am from Gujarat, it fascinated me. Kudos to you for bringing close one more fabric of vasudaiva kutumbakam

As a Roma Thank you for this video about my people ❤ .. yes it’s true our ancestors were Indians some of us from the north some of us was from the south and included Pakistan region it depends what gypsy tribes were talking about there’s many different tribes we all speak one type of language that is Sanskrit but just each tribes has their own accent .. so the ghazwazee tribe left India on their own to Egypt thousands of years ago the Sinti and the Dom/Doma left India in the 5th century to Iran 🇮🇷 .. and there is my tribes the Roma/Romani and Calè/Cali tribes who were part of the Rayput kings military in the 10th century mahmud ghazni the ghaznavi’s attacked northern Indian villages in the name of destroying false Hindu gods but they robbed Hindus out of there gold than burn their ancient statues structures buildings houses with many Hindus in it and than when they were finished they taken my tribes Roma and the Calè who tried to stop them they circled us with our family’s and taken us with them to Afghanistan as slaves servants but we quickly escaped From them to Iran 🇮🇷 in the 10th century and stayed there for few centuries .. than around the 13th century majority of our tribes moved to turkey 🇹🇷 the calè tribe was went to Morocco 🇲🇦 when the ottomans were powerful army and we move there made a deal with them we make swords ⚔️ and many other military things for them plus entertained them with music and dance if they allow us to stay there and than around 14th century 100 years latter they slaved us because majority of us refused them when they asked us to kill and spy for them when they were going into Eastern Europe to conquer them and only a small minority of our tribes escaped to Eastern Europe and than the majority of our people were brought to Eastern Europe as slaves and servants to the ottomans and than latter when the ottomans lost their power over eastern Europe the Europeans continued our slavery for 400 years in a row they said we were ottomans spy’s and killers when we were slaved for refusing to be one in the first place 😂😂 our story is like a tragic comedy .. anyways nice job on the research god bless Indian brother and all of India from a Roma ☸️❤️= 🇮🇳 🙏 ❤

Thank you for clarifying this for many. I know Romani people, I had them as friends as well. Many of them are pretty well educated, integrated in the societies they live in. About 1500 years ago, they moved west from the Punjabi part of India. The term of gypsies according to Google comes from the believe that they were Egyptians. They live all over Europe including Ireland. Probably many that claim to be Romani, don't have anything to do with the blood line, but adopted the Romani customs and traditions. It is said to be nation with a language, but without a country. As sad as it may appear, many of them after such great deal of time, are still keeping their own way of life and traditions. Amazing isn't it?

That’s one thing I’ve been saying for a long time to people. The striking similarities in facial features and looks of the gulf Arabs to Indians. Thanks for confirming this.

Hinduism is BASE ❤️

Gypsies are a part of India too. I was always interested in the subject. 👏👏👏

Parika tut prala. I love my Indian heritage, but it's so sad that the bloodline is ebbing away. I am pale with blue eyes, butmy grandad is darker with brown eyes. I want a DNA test to see how much Indian I have in my blood

Its really sad, that they r far away from their motherland, nd we r not in position to help them.

I lived in Germany and Austria for 2yrs. There are a lot of Romani people in Austria. Although Germany had few Romani people, their population was much higher in Austria. Before going there I never knew such a group of people existed. When I saw lot of Indian facial featured people, I browsed about them and came to know about the term 'Gypsies' or 'Romanis'. I really wanted to talk to them, but not knowing how to start, I left. But it was painful to see so many of our own people living homeless in Europe eating 1€ burger everyday. It's super cheap and we'll still be hungry eating that burger.. Come back to our country guys, we'll take care of you.. You don't have to struggle like that in those countries amongst cold blooded people. I don't know about US or Canada, but Europeans are very reserved, insecure, money minded, intolerant people. They'd all talk nice and warm in front of us, but amongst themselves they call us brown skinned desis etc.. I lived with a German family in there most of my time. Although they talk nicely to me infront of my face, within themselves I often hear them telling each other, not to get too close to these Desi boys or Girls, they're plundering our jobs, they're getting too rich, these Desi ... are everywhere these days etc etc. I know them personally but there are still many good people , these hatred comments were told to me by one of the boy in the house saying that they're talking stupid about Indians, please don't mind it, they're old generation people, they don't change etc.. So there's that too. Nobody will help you, you need to help yourselves in those countries. Poor Romanis, can't imagine what their ancestors would have went through in the ancient times..☹️

I got know about this when I met with an Ukranian gypsy girl. She used to call himself sometimes indian gypsy girl. So , I ask her about this then she explains me everything.

I really came to know these things from you only back in beer biceps podcasts and i am happy for. That

Mata KaliSara 🙏🏻🕉️🙏🏻 Pranaam 🙏🏻🕉️🙏🏻

Spread love for our indian brother's & sister's living around the World 🌐 ☮️🕊️☮️

Wonderful video my friend, i am a true roma person and I appreciate you pointing out the good in roma culture, i would just like to add something to this video , it is true that alot of roma people are still nomadic but most of them and by most i mean maybe 90% of roma people are not nomadic at all we’re just regular people that live next door the only difference is we have our own language and customs that are very important to us and not all roma steal not all roma are witches or psychics , ignorance is a cancer which unfortunately is part of everyday life

You missed Django Reinhardt ;-)

This is interesting - I recently asked a Serb while in Serbia about the Romani people. he knew they were originally from India but refused to acknowledge that they were discriminated against or marginalized. He said that they beat their own wives and children and the police are inundated with calls from their women due to domestic violence. He felt sad for their state of affairs and was of the opinion that they brought it upon themselves because they refused to integrate with Europeans and refused to work honestly to earn a living. They are found guilty of thefts and such, and do generally live in the outskirts of cities. Very sad state of affairs.

Interesting🌸 , I learned something new today... We need to get powerful like our great ancestors then anything is possible 😇

This means Peaky Blinders were of Indian ancestral origin, amazing😲😲, cause in series they were depicted as gypsies/Romani people.

I knew it, we are all related 🙏🏽 I’ve noticed cultural similarities with my UK Gypsy population.

They need to do Gharwapsi.

भारत सरकार को इन्हें नागरिकता देनी चाहिए और इनकी घर वापसी करानी चाहिए।

O my hanumanji now I understand why a german woman say herself a indian origin hindu from gujrat rajisthan from where her ancestral move out when she meet me in a train

I had heard about gypsies of Europe and the way they were looked upon was what I read in novels . They were always looked upon as thieves and criminals. That's so sad ! Much later i got to know about their Indian origin - which surprised me very much. Thank you for the info about how they got there. It's tragic how many Indians have been dislodged, kidnapped, driven away from their homes / country. The perpetrators are always of the same mindset and community. I hope and pray that wherever the Romanis are - they are safe, healthy , happy and welcomed into the mainstream . 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you sir for touching these untouched topics related to our bharat origin

Thank you for this clarification, sir. India should offer a good plan to the Romanies, to at least make them feel having a real home.

Our present government must help them come back and stay and prosper. Are there other people (other than Romani) like them in the world?

I am sorry to hear our brothers and sisters are still wondering in Europe. Govt of India must help them and put pressure on European govt to recognise and provide all facilities

If I'm not mistaken, Indian government already invited n promised to give them citizenship should they decide to migrate to India. I guess most of them don't know, don't have the means to travel or even proper papers to do so.

I am so so pained by what Hindus have gone through since so many centuries...

Sar there is youtuber Nomadic Indian. He visited Roma people. And uploaded videos as well.. In that video this Roma people they are still having Indian name. Example Gopal Krishna extra 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for letting the world know these things. Love your videos They do great justice to the INDIANS

Instead of giving immigration to Rohingyas we should invite the Romani back to India and they would integrate perfectly as they have not forgotten their culture. Like you said when I saw their videos I immediately felt they looked Indian and their dialect sounded Gujarati.

#Askabhijit Sir as we know our ancient books are destroyed by others, how can we get the right knowledge about the 108 Upanishads, and also book like kamasurta??

I stayed there for 4 yrs. So called gypsies,the old women resembles so much like Indian Grandmother in look.

I dont know to feel happy or sad, the least we can do now for them is to accept them and let them come to india and settle here. I will be so much happy to see them in india and live a dignified and respectful life.

Thank you Sir for this Video!

Awesome videos. Great efforts and amazing information. Wish you could also use photos and videos of the subjects you are speaking about to add more into the video. 🙏🙏

Even Alba Flores, a Spanish Actress who had a role in a web Series "Money Heist" is a Mixed Romani and Spanish, and so looks very much like an Average Indian Women.

Gratitude to you sir . After the demise of my papa I was missing too much the keen discussion with him about the history, anthropology and many other subjects like Mythology. Now since I have begun to attend all your lessons I am feeling again the satisfaction of having such a great precious knowledge.

Thanks for this video Me Chanda. I’m Chinese Australian & I have been interested in the Gypsy (Roma) people since my days at university. It would be good, if you make a video of the Roma people by taking a few Romas to trace their roots back to India. It can be a documentary video of more than one part - maybe 2 or more parts. You can take them on a journey, travelling east to Rajasthan. I look forward to you making such a video. Maybe you can ask the Indian government to assist your project financially & other ways. It will be good for tourism to India. Good luck. The world must unite to fight discrimination against Roma (Gypsy) people. God bless the Roma people. Best wishes from Australia 🇦🇺

Sir excellent. Thanks 🙏

I knew about Romani but I never pondered on the history and genesis. Thanks for this information.

Kem chho chavda bhai? Majama..?🙋

If India really wants to take it's rightful place as a Superpower in the comity of Nations, it must first use its growing clout to liberate the Romani from a persecuted existence. Alternatively give them a carte blanche option of returning to India on the basis of DNA testing. Else our claim to preserving our people, culture, values and way of life is hollow.

Thay you sir for clearing my confusion. Thank you so much.

That is why Guru Gobind Singh instructed Punjabis to defeat the Turks and expel them from India.

we Gypsies of India are Knowen in here by the name of Banjra and Roma are Banjara its us our Nomadic tribes went to europe is now called as Romani or gypsy in middle east they call them Doma and In India and pakistan they call us Banjara we have same language almost same and lots of similarities in Traditions also in clothing

They are extremely marginalized in Spain...

Fascinating

WOWW... ELVIS PRESSLEY HE IS MY FAV , I didn't know he was indo Aryan , I always had a feeling why I so much connect to this American guy 😂😂 , I always have his pic as my wallpaper.

I am shocked to hear this indian slave or refugee crisis is not fact but sad to hear this

Always wondered why I had a vast interest in Romani/Gypsy culture. When Indians go into survival mode we do some extreme shit. 🔥❤️. Much love to all the Romani out there.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Apna BHAI hai ,.....🤣😂😂😍🥰😍😍😍

NO MORE poverty, NO MORE excuses, NO MORE blame, NO MORE entitlement, NO MORE struggling, NO MORE unemployment! WE ARE INDIANS-PROUD, SUCCESSFUL, HARDWORKING, PERFECT OVERACHEIVERS!

Abhijit ji 🙏 Fascinating video.

I recently watched a movie "time of the gypsies" in that movie a man was counting ek do teen and i was shocked then I read the history of Romani people how they were persecuted and marginalised by invedors its really heartbreaking

I would like to say to the people of my India, please support the people who are living a very sad life for the Gypsie people love from chhattisgarh.

I found out about the Indian origin of Romani people,the Spanish flamenco music genre being Indian, etc , when I was a teenager, except it was mentioned as an possible origin story and not as the only and final answer to Romani origin. The Indian origin of Romani people does explain many questions I've had about that social cultural group. BUT THAT BEING SAID! I'm not of Romani or Indian origin, so I don't claim any of those ancestry or specialized knowledge of that.

great video, nice information.

If they are originally Indian, perhaps Parliament should enact an extension of CAA to accommodate these people here.

even thomas shelby from peaky blinders was a gypsy, nice vedio abhijit sir

Indian govt. Should do something

🌈ROMANI PEOPLE❤️ 👏👏👏

Sir... one day please show your book collection to us (viewers) PLEASE SIR... I Aways try to read the titles of the book through the book spines behind you... Please sir..🙏

These explains the origin of and journey in the Tarot!

I am a Roma person, i can to contribute to more info about us. If you're interested, mr. Chavda

I also want this topic to elaborate Also the pictures of one Romani girl with her grandmother ranveer used looked exactly like my sister

Thank you I am watching this video now Romani people.

When Zlatan enters the room everyone leaves

Hello! Sir huge fan of yours; had a question regarding the Egyptian civilization is there any connection with india or indians because it seems that the architecture of pyramid has a lot in common that of our hindu temple and their beliefs in afterlife, and their gods r somewhat similar for example we have Ganesha they have sun god 'RA' whose face r that of a animal or birds? Could you elaborate more on the same topic??

Thank you 😊

Indian government must investigate on this matter who were made slaves by Turks and taken to various countries including USSR and Eastern Europe including Germany and grant them citizenship

Never feel alone my romani brothers and sisters, I am proud to be Hindu Sanatani

I'm proud of my Roma people

Sir can you suggest some books, articles, research papers on the same? I'll be grateful. Wish to know more about our diaspora.

The Romany (Gypsy) and Sinti people of Europe are divided into many (several dozen) communities speaking languages mixed with one or other European language, usually that of where they live but not always (due to migration). Hitler hated them and I believe the Bohemian (Czech) community was more or les wiped out. There were more in Eastern Europe: unlike the Jews the survivors did not move to Israel. Some groups went over to North and South America. Due to centuries of persecution they are secretive about their language and religion. In England it is Romanichal. In Western Europe they tend to be Roman Catholic, with a devotion to St Bridget who for them has aspects of Kali. They used carts until early in the 19th century when wooden caravans where introduced. These have largely been replaced by motor vehicles. The gypsies of Romania were slaves for several centuries. We should remember that the peasants and workers of Russia were serfs, that is more or less the same as slaves, until the 1850's: they belonged to the land, and were bought and sold with it, and domestic or factory workers could be taken and sold abroad. Many people in India had a similar status then. There are somewhat similar people called the Dom (who speak Domari) in North Africa, the Middle East and Iran who seem to have left India at different times and by different routes. There are also similar people in the Caucasus, where ethnic groups have been at each others' throats since the iron hand of the USSR was removed. The same happened after the break up of Yugoslavia. There are also other groups of people such as the Irish Travellers NOT originating in India who have lived a similar lifestyle for some centuries, and the New Age Travellers who came out of the Hippy movement of the 1960's and 70's. Right-wing politicians and newspapers hate the latter even more than they hate the Roma.

Namaste India, Im from Kosovo we have small part of community named Ma gypt noone roma but with Indian adn and north African adn some middle east. Can we discover and discute who are exactly this people.?

Thank you brother for making an excellent video on the most neglected and harassed Roma population of the world.