Lemme guess -- the omnipresent "they are Khazars!" trope has been raised in connection with them.
--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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> The Mumbai community goes back centuries; they came from
> what is now Iraq and Iran. There are several others
> with lineages just as fuzzy and weird as you find in the
> Caucases and Central Asia. Come to think of it, I
> think some of them came from Central Asia.
>
> Michael
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