Music Turn Me into a "Desperado"!
of a vibrant culture, left the Indian subcontinent about a thousand years ago embarking on a migration that scattered them all over the world. The culture they left behind remained
Brief History of the Gypsies
musicians to the Shah of Persia. It is assumed that those musicians were the ancestors of the Roma since after a year the Shah sent them away from Persia.
dia. As well, the Roma have been known as entertainers and inspired musicians in every country they have traveled, as some of the nomadic groups present in the Thar Desert today.
people are known as the snake charmer caste. The women are skilled dancers and are accompanied by men playing percussion and wind instruments. The Kalbeliya were once hired to entertain great kings and maharajahs. Today they are sadly considered to be squatters and experience much discrimination. They struggle to preserve their culture and dances. They follow Indian fairs and festivals hoping to get hired to perform dances in hotels and private resorts.
m sense of humor in relaxed situations. This young woman is amused at the attention she receives from visitors. Perhaps she smiles because she knows she is about to be paid. The Kuna know the value of their faces as subjects for photos and expect compensation for each shot.c. 1000-1050: Groups of Rajputs begin migration out of northern India toward Persia and Armenia.
c. 1100: Roma recorded in the Byzantine Empire.
1300s : Roma already settled in Wallachia and Serbia, where they are perceived as aliens and enslaved.
1407: Roma recorded living in Germany—within ten years they are expelled.
1418: Roma recorded in France
1422: Roma recorded in Rome.
1425: Roma recorded in Spain.
1471: Anti-Gypsy laws passed in Switzerland.
1492: Spain passes anti-Gypsy laws and subjects Roma to the Inquisition as heretics.
1498: Roma settlement in the Americas begins, when four Gypsies accompany Christopher Columbus on his Third Voyage.
1502: Louis XII expels the Roma from France.
1526: Henry VIII expels the Roma from England. Roma caught entering England are to be punished with death.
1530: Egyptians Act 1530 passed in England.
1538: Portugal expels Roma to Brazil.
1560: In Sweden, the Lutheran Church forbids any dealings with Roma.
1563: Roma are denied entrance into the priesthood by the Council of Trent.
1589: Denmark imposes a death sentence on any Roma caught in the country.
1595: Ştefan Răzvan, son of a Romani immigrant from the Ottoman Empire, rules Moldavia for four months.
1619: Philip III of Spain orders all Roma to settle down and abandon their traditional lifestyle and culture. Failure to do so is punishable by death.
1936-1945: Nazis begin systematic persecution of Roma, culminating in Porajmos.
2006 January: The University of Manchester has completed its "[Romani] project", the first morphologic study aiming to collect all the dialects of Roma language throughout Europe and dealing with their coherency.[1]
2006 -: The first entirely Roma party has been founded in Hungary, called the "MCF Roma összefogás" (MCF Roma Union), although they reached only the 0,08% of total votes (from a total population registered for voting around 8 million people) at the parliementary elections held on April 9, 2006. [2]
*the gypsies still living in Northern India (Rajasthan) and migrate to other country after modern era.
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