Hindu Origins Of Roma

[G.Subramaniam]

<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Dec 12 2007, 03:22 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Dec 12 2007, 03:22 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->If they were people escaping the Islamic invasions of the early 1000 A.D. they could have acquired their name from Rum ie Byzantium. OTH if they were westward migrating tribes of Dom that could be another explanation. Has any one studied the Dommari/Banjara tribals and the Roma people? What I find difficult is to associate them with Rajputs. They might even be from before the Islamic invasions. The descriptions of their theogony (Varuna etc) speaks of Vedic gods.
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I find something unbelievable

If people were escaping islam, they would migrate to south and east India
not into afghanistan-persia-turkey-europe