Kapisthala-Katha Samhita

Raghu Vira was born on 30 December 1902 in Rawalpindi in the present-day Punjab province of Pakistan. He was highly educated and trained as a linguist, having completed his MA in Lahore, Ph.D. in London and D.Litt. from Leiden University, Netherlands. After completing his doctoral research in Indic Studies, Vira went on multiple study trips to Europe. In one such trip to Europe in 1928 he wrote about the similarity between the Indian and Romani people, particularly the similarities between Hindi/Sanskrit and the Romani language.