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      No Place Like Home: History, Politics and Mobility among a Pastoral Nomadic Community in Western India

      Nomadic Peoples
      Berghahn Books

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          This article asks, Why do these nomadic populations continue to adhere to a lifestyle that has clearly become economically and ecologically difficult to sustain? Why has their seasonal transformation from nomads into dairymen not led to the kind of permanent transformation described by Salzman in his study based in south Gujarat? Other regional pastoral communities like the Rabaris continue to herd animals but often only as a supplement to other sources of income. Why do the Jatts of Banni continue to hold so tenaciously to the possibility of return to a land that is barren and dry most of the year and flooded over on the rare occasions it rains? It will be argued that nomadic populations should be situated not merely in regard to the ecological constraints that dictate lifestyle choices, even though those constraints are real ones. Instead, I hope to show that the continued back and forth movement of the Jatt pastoralists ought to be seen as an outcome of a network of choices that are political and ideological rather than purely ecological in nature.

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          Journal
          Nomadic Peoples
          Nomadic Peoples
          Berghahn Books
          0822-7942
          December 01 2004
          December 01 2004
          : 8
          : 2
          : 168-190
          Article
          10.3167/082279404780446122
          08e7872e-25f7-4f66-b074-4dbb42140967
          © 2004
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