CHARLIE CHAPLIN WAS AN INDIAN? YES, YOU ARE READING IT RIGHT THAT CHARLIE CHAPLIN WAS AN INDIAN.

 Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin well known as Charlie Chaplin was  an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. Will you believe me if I tell you that he was an Indian by descent?  Absolutely not. But, do you know that he belonged to Roma community popularly known as gypsys?

         Roma is an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants living mostly in Europe, and  America. The Romani as a people originated from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab regions of modern-day India.

                             

        

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European Roma descended from Indian 'untouchables', genetic study shows

Roma gypsies in Britain and Europe are descended from "dalits" or low caste "untouchables" who migrated from the Indian sub-continent 1,400 years ago, a genetic study has suggested.

 Recent genetic studies based on genome-wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data further investigated the history of Roma and suggested that the source of South Asian ancestry in Roma originates most likely from the Northwest region of India.

Methods

In this study, based also on genome-wide SNP data, we attempted to refine these findings using significantly larger number of European Roma samples, an extended dataset of Indian groups and involving Pakistani groups into the analyses. Our Roma data contained 179 Roma samples. Our extended Indian data consisted of 51 distinct Indian ethnic groups, which provided us a higher resolution of the population living on the Indian subcontinent. We used in this study principal component analysis and other ancestry estimating methods for the study of population relationships, several formal tests of admixture and an improved algorithm for investigating shared IBD segments in order to investigate the main sources of Roma ancestry.

Results

According to our analyses, Roma showed significant IBD sharing of 0.132 Mb with Northwest Indian ethnic groups. The most significant IBD sharings included ethnic groups of Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat states. However, we found also significant IBD sharing of 0.087 Mb with ethnic groups living in Pakistan, such as Balochi, Brahui, Burusho, Kalash, Makrani, Pashtun and Sindhi.

Conclusion

Our results show that Northwest India could play an important role in the South Asian ancestry of Roma, however, the origin of Romani people might include the area of Pakistan as well.

SOURCE - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

AS DNA TESTS HAVE SUGGESTED THAT ROMA BELONG TO INDIA,  WE HAVE THE BASE TO CONSIDER THEIR DESCENT AS INDIAN.