Author: Maheen Yaseen

Introduction

Diversity in India has led to coexistence of a lot of communities or social groups which at lot of times are either represented to a majoritarian extent or to a middle ground where you have enough population which can raise awareness for the communities and alas at last you have communities whose existence is even considered a bane. Pastoralist community in India, “members of caste or ethnic groups with a strong traditional association with livestock-keeping, where a substantial proportion of the group derive over 50% of household consumption from livestock products or their sale, and where over 90% of animal consumption is from natural pasture or browse and where households are responsible for the full cycle of livestock breeding.”