Forgotten History: the Romani (Gypsy) Migration from India to Europe

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I’m of Romanian Romani family. Our dna has mostly Indian, then we have Greek, Balkan of course, Turkish, Aegean, Cyprus. My sister did a test so we could know, we are at 34% Indian! 😂

Thank you for touching on the Violent Islamic Invasions of India. Its usually ignored.

Hi I am a Roma person who lives in UK I want to say a huge thank you for this video its nice to see our roots around the world. To be honest I feel very upset tht through centuries we have not been able to find a stable an safe place on earth till this say I have no country i live in London but born in poland which makes me polish roma. Hope fully more people will understand and learn about Roma history. Thank you :)

I took a DNA test and found out I’m part Romani Gypsy ancestry…upon further analysis I have genetic markers related to Rajasthani and Punjabi. My family is from Spain Portugal France Greece Italy and Russia ❤️ one day I will visit India 🇮🇳

I live in rural South India and about a year ago several families of North Indian Gypsy blacksmiths stayed in 3-4 villages around for 1 or 2 months. They practiced their skills right in front of you, forging tools from old truck springs. No begging or dancing, just production & trade.

The Indian people have greeted and sheltered Persians once and we owe this to them. I’ve never met Loris in my life but I hope that they finally find the peace they have been seeking for decades. 🇮🇷🇮🇳

Our Indian history book: 🙊🙈🙉🙉🙊🙈🙉🙉

Europeans lecturing Americans on racism: 😍❤️🌹☀️ Europeans talking about Gypsies: 👹🔥🚀🔫

Hello I am a Sinto ,from Sinti People in Germany . Thank you 😘❤️ for portraing the Sinti and Roma History, Independently of another, in this video, and the fact that you underlined the ethnic independence of both peoples is also to be credited very highly.The story of the two peoples isn't very easy, but you put a lot of effort into it, it shows and it's summarized pretty well. I also like the many Facts you brought up about each Community and the slavery & Gipsy Hunting as a sport 👍🏽 Thank you for bringing awareness to the world & Indian subcontinent about our story😘. I have absolutely nearly nothing to criticize except the word "Romani" which Ian Hancock invented and which I and many Sinti dont like.

My Indian family came to the United States in the late 1960’s and started living in Scranton, PA. A family acquaintance, a female Indian professor was arrested by the Scranton police because they believed she was Gypsy and had not registered with them. She wore Indian clothes and had no id. It wasn’t until she contacted her college who was able to vouch for her that she was released. My own mother was questioned by the police once.

I'm Romani! I'm a mix of indian, italian, turkish, middle eastern and of course - central european DNA! It's so cool!

I am a rajasthani ( Indian first). We migrated from Rajasthan towards the east after the partition and settled in Orissa. I did my DNA test and it points to Sindh/Rajasthan/Afghanistan (just these three). It is interesting how religious reasons meant converting or get killed. Not sure how my forefathers survived those times and we still practice Hinduism . This video explains perfectly , the forced migrations.

As a Greek, thank you for explaining the Roma and athingani history. I learned something I was wondering about for quite some time!

I met a Romani native in UK and her name was Ramona… She could speak some of the words which we speak in Rajasthan… ♥️

As a Sinti, thank you for making this video. I have been fighting the educational system here in the Netherlands for some time about how we did not even get mentioned at first and its great to finally see more of a change happening and videos like this that are so well researched~

I'm an Irish traveller and we are similar to the Romani culturally speaking. My great grandfathers were tinsmiths who were called Tinkers (derogatory term in Ireland). It's insane how until recently we still had intinerant lifestyle. Our honour/shame system always reminded me of Punjabi and islamic societal norms.

Indian Gypsies also exist, especially in Central and South India. They are also nomadic and performed ancillary services, they are called BANJARA. There tradition relates them to Rajasthan and North Sindh area

In the late 1800s Mexico, my grandmother was a little girl that was enchanted by Gypsies that had passed through her area. She followed them out of town. They threw rocks at her to keep her away because they did not want the locals to think she was being stolen.

As an Iranian I need to note 2 things: 1_There's also a Zoroastrian Persian community who fled the Arab invasion towards India known as "Parsi people". 🇮🇷❤️🇮🇳🇵🇰 2_ the "Lori" mentioned in this video of Indian descent should not be mistaken with the ethnic Lur people of SouthWest Iran whose language is derived from Middle Persian...