Monday, December 12, 2011

Dom

Madan still refers to the lower castes in his Garhwal village as 'Dom'.
In the Middle East, the gypsies, called 'Dom', are Muslims.
In the Shina valley of Pakistan-controlled Gilgit-Baltistan region, the musician and blacksmith population is called 'Bericho', or 'Dom'.
It was nice to find an overlapping history of these people, originally lower caste outcastes from India, who migrated like they had wings, and came to be more commonly known as the gypsies.
Where do gypsies come from?
Domba
Gypsies — the dalits of European continent

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