Other low castes and outcasts were probably included in the emigration, but I believe that future research will prove that they were all of the old stock.

The first Pariahs of India may have consisted entirely of those who refused to embrace the religion of their conquerors.
It has been coolly asserted by a recent writer that Gipsies are not proved to be of Hindu origin because "a few" Hindu words are to be found in their language.

What the proportion of such words really is may be ascertained from the dictionary which will follow this work.

But throwing aside all the evidence afforded by language, traditions, manners, and customs, one irrefutable proof still remains in the physical resemblance between Gipsies all the world over and the natives of India.
Even in Egypt, the country claimed by the Gipsies themselves as their remote great-grandfather-land, the native Gipsy is not Egyptian in his appearance but Hindu.

The peculiar brilliancy of the eye and its expression in the Indian is common to the Gipsy, but not to the Egyptian or Arab; and every donkey-boy in Cairo knows the difference between the _Rhagarin_ and the native as to personal appearance.