summary of chapter pastoralists in the modern world ?
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1 )gujjar bakarwals ... they live in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir. they herd got and sheep . they migrated to this region in the 19th century and established in this area.
2)gaddi... the gadi shepherds live in Himachal Pradesh they also spend winter in the low hills of shivaliks
3)gujjar.... the gujjar cattle herders live in garhwal and kumaon. during winter they come down to the dry forest of the bhabar.
4)dhangars... these were important pastoral community of Maharashtra. their population was estimated to be 467000 during the early 20th century.
5)gollas... the gollas lived in the plateaus of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. they were cattle herders.
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So we see that pastoral communities in different parts of the world
are affected in a variety of different ways by changes in the modern
world. New laws and new borders affect the patterns of their
movement. With increasing restrictions on their mobility,
pastoralists find it difficult to move in search of pastures. As pasture
lands disappear grazing becomes a problem, while pastures that
remain deteriorate through continuous over grazing. Times of
drought become times of crises, when cattle die in large numbers.
Yet, pastoralists do adapt to new times. They change the paths of
their annual movement, reduce their cattle numbers, press for rights
to enter new areas, exert political pressure on the government for
relief, subsidy and other forms of support and demand a right in
the management of forests and water resources. Pastoralists are not
relics of the past. They are not people who have no place in the
modern world. Environmentalists and economists have increasingly
come to recognise that pastoral nomadism is a form of life that is
perfectly suited to many hilly and dry regions of the world.