An inter-continental team of scientists drawn out from Asia, Europe and the USA has found that the ancestors of the European Roma are the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from north-western India. “We have proved scientifically that the forefathers of the European Roma are the doma, a collective term for the ancient aboriginal populations. a collective term for the ancient aboriginal populations of the Indian subcontinent, also known as Dalits,” ......
The scientists were from CCMB, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu University, Estonia, University of Bern, Switzerland; University of Cambridge, UK and Stanford University, USA. The ancestry of European Roma was always enmeshed in controversy.irThe ancestry of European Roma was always enmeshed in controversy though it was widely believed that they had their origins from north-west India. The exact parental population group and time of dispersal into various continents remained a mystery all these years. The Roman are spread all over Europe, the USA and South America. Dr Gyaneshwer Chaubey from Estonian Biocentre said the breakthrough was made by studying the Y hromosomes of the Gypsies with that of various ethnic groups in Indian subcontinent.
Link: https://organiser.org/2012/12/08/49730/general/rd4c51c23/
