Question

Where Gujjar and Gujjar Bhakarwal live ?

Answer 1

The Gujjars herd their stock and travel up and down the mountains in southern Kashmir flitting between two bases according to the weather while the Bakarwals traverse a far longer distance, camping overnight at various hillside meadows spending their summers in the upper reaches near Ladakh and going all the way down to Poonch, Rajouri and even Punjab during winters. Pehelgam falls midway and so is often host to several little groups of people and their livestock for most part of the year. The busy season for migration is in April- May when the Bakarwal move uphill towards Ladakh from the warmer plains and in September – October when they leave their freshly snowed in pastures, back to warmer plains.