Miradija Gidzic Preoce, Kosovo May 2007
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This small book is not an academic review of the Gypsies, just a street-witness overview of their traditions, to better understand their origins in Old India. In the past, many gypsyologists felt these people had no traditions and that their origins could only be traced through their language and dialects. However, at least for me, their traditions and inherited professions have shed more light on their various origins than their language.
I am deeply indebted to those Roma, Sinti, Ashkali, and Kale with whom I’ve lived and associated with since 1963 for sharing with me their ancestral traditions. I would also like to thank Dr. Thomas Acton, O.B.E. Emeritus Professor of Romani Studies, University of Greenwich and presently curator, archive section, of the Digital Archive of the Roma, Berlin, Germany, for reading my manuscript and contributing several footnotes.
SOURCES
All of these books and journals are either in my own personal library or were consulted in the British Library in London, England.
The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, (eight volumes), H.M. Elliot, London, 1867-1877
Hindu Tribes and Castes, M.A. Sherring, London, 1872
The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories, Frederic Drew, London, 1875
Caste in India (two volumes), John Wilson, London, 1877
Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh, J. Biddulph, Calcutta, 1880
The Gypsies, Charles Godfrey Leland, London, 1882
Vedic India, Z.A. Ragozia, London, 1895
Tribes and Castes of North-Western Province and Oudh, W. Crooke, Calcutta, 1896
The Balkan Trail, Frederick Moore, London, 1906
Overland to India, Sven Hedin, London, 1910
A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province (three volumes) H.A. Rose, Lahore, 1911, 1914, 1919
Panjab Castes, Denzil Ibbetson, Lahore, 1916
Apuntes del Dialecto “Calo” o Gitano Puro, Barsaly Dávila y Blas Pérez, Madrid, 1943
The Sansis of Punjab, Sher Singh Sher, Delhi, 1965
Gypsy Lore Society Journal, every issue found from 1888 to 1934 in the British Library.
Caste and Race in India, G.S.Ghurye, Bombay, 1932
PAUL POLANSKY
GYPSY GENEALOGY Through Their Traditions
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ISBN-13: 978-1976259692
ISBN-10: 197625969X