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Q : How did the pastoralist cope with changes brought about by the colonial government in INDIA ?

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Pastoralists reacted to these changes in variety of ways:

1.Some reduced their cattles in their herds.

2.others discovered new pastures.

3.Richer pastoralists bought land and started settling down.

4.Some took to extensive trading.

5.Poor pastoralists did odd jobs for living.

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Pastoralists reacted to these changes in variety of ways: 1.Some reduced their cattles in their herds. 2.others discovered new pastures. 3.Richer pastoralists bought land and started settling down. 4.Some took to extensive trading. 5.Poor pastoralists did odd jobs for living.
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Pastoralists reacted to these changes in variety of ways:... 1.Some reduced their cattles in their herds. 2.others discovered new pastures. 3.Richer pastoralists bought land and started settling down. 4.Some took to extensive trading. 5.Poor pastoralists did odd jobs for living.
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Pastoralists coped with the changes in a variety of ways:

(i) Some reduced the number of cattle in their herds.

(ii) Others changed the direction of their movement and discovered new pastures. For example, Raikas who instead of moving into Sindh have in recent years been migrating to Haryana where sheep graze on agricultural fields after harvest. The animals provide manure that fields need.

(iii) Richer pastoralists began buying land and settled in one place giving up their nomadic life. They became peasants land.

(iv) Some took to extensive trading and money lending.

(v) The poor amongst them became labourers or started working in fields or in small towns.

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At first they reduced their cattles and involved themselves into trade and some poor bought loan from moneylenders and sold their cattles and worked for money lenders as labourers to fulfilling their interest
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Pastoralists reacted to these changes in variety of ways:... 1.Some reduced their cattles in their herds. 2.others discovered new pastures. 3.Richer pastoralists bought land and started settling down. 4.Some took to extensive trading. 5.Poor pastoralists did odd jobs for living.
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  1. some reduced their cattles
  2. some took to extensive trading
  3. some did odd jobs for living
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Answer.

  1.  Reduction in the number of cattle: When the grazing lands were taken over and converted into fields, this forced many nomads to reduce the member of cattle in their herds.
  2.  New pastures : Defining of boundaries forced many nomads to search for new pastures. For example, after the partition of India in 1947, the camel and sheep herding Raikas, for instance, could no longer move into Sindh and graze their camels on the banks of the Indus, as they had done earlier. The new political boundaries between India and Pakistan stopped their movement. So they had to find new places to go. In recent years, they have been migrating to Haryana where sheep can graze on agricultural fields after the harvests are cut. This is the time that the fields need manure that the animals provide.
  3.  New occupations : Over the years, some richer pastoralists began buying land and settling down, giving up their nomadic life. Some became settled peasants cultivating land others took to more extensive trading. Many poor pastoralists, on the other , hand, borrowed money from moneylenders to survive. At times, they lost their cattle and sheep and became labourers, working on fields or in small towns.
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