The Indian Banjara gypsies aka Gor, Lamans, Lambadi, Lambhani, Lambani and/or Gormati are a community of nomadic people who originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan. They have spread gradually into Karnataka and Kashmir and are now found all over India.
The Banjara people’s culture and art form a significant aspect of their identity and include rangoli, embroidery and tattooing. The women specialize in lepo embroidery, which involves stitching pieces of mirror, decorative beads and coins onto their bright and colourful cotton attire. Their headscarves are also embroidered decoratively. Banjara women wear many heavy, often white, bangles aka bandiya on their arms. Their jewelry consists of nose rings, necklaces, beads, silver rings and hair clips which are often mistaken for large earrings when they are in fact tied to the woman’s plaited hair.
The nomadic desert gypsies of Rajasthan are one of the most colourful tribal communities in India. Their bright colours, piercing gaze, henna hands, stylish headscarves and traditional jewelry scream everything "gypsy", as they refer to themselves, and their traditional attire tells the long story of these people's history in the sand dunes of Rajasthan. The origin of the tribe dates several centuries back. The people of this Rajasthani tribe belong currently to the lowest step of India’s socio-cultural and socio-economic ladder. They live a nomadic life and travel as dancers and musicians like a caravan from place to place. There is no permanent residence for them. They sleep under the open sky some times and in the shade of trees...
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