LAKATOS DORA

IN SEARCH OF GYPSY ORIGIN, HISTORY and IDENTITY

Lakatos Dora a young anthropologist of Budapest, Hungary in Europe, has travelled all the way to Rajasthan , India, to Pushkar a possible place of historical origin of European Indian Gypsies. Prior to her own historical visit to Rajasthan the ancestral home of the Gypsies, Dora surveyed much of the literature available to her in Hungary. In her desperate search and un answered questions concerning Indian Gypsies in Europe and India, consulted many authors like Sir Athalestane Baines, Balogg Andras, M. Bhuriya, S.L. Doshi, N.N. Vyas, Louise Dumont, Bahar Dutt, Sir Agnus Fraser, Stephen Fuchs, H.M.G Grellman, Halmos Antal, Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Eric J. Hobsbawm Donald Kenrick, Kis Tunde, Kos Peter, Chaman Lal, D.N. Majumdar, D.P. Pandey, V.P. Sharma, Megan Maxwell, Adityendra Rao. W.R.Rishi, Renner Zsuzsanna, Rostas-Farkas Gyorgy, S.P. Ruhela, R.N.Sharma, M.N.Srinivas, Torzsok, and others. Travelling far and wide Dora in her unsatisfied quest for an authentic identity of Gypsies in Rajasthan, she contacted alone many Indian scholars, tourist guides, different Gypsy groups, Banjaras, Nomads including famous Gadulia Lohars of Mewar. In her short term research, Lakatos Dora arrives to a conclusion of her own, that, the origin, concept , identity and history of the Gypsies should be searched well and the term Gypsy should be redefined well by serious scholars like cultural historian, cultural anthropologists, etc so as to eliminate. Existing doubts concerning Indian Gypsies in Europe and India.

Dora has produced a valuable manuscript of her findings concerning Indian Gypsies in Rajasthan under the title of GYPSIES IN INDIA.....? Which makes an interesting reading and it is a significant document for the contextual discussion on the Gypsies in India and Europe. The questions Lakatos Dora raises cannot remain un-answered.

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