Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| DOI | 10.1186/s13570-020-00190-1 |
| Understanding 'culture' of pastoralism and 'modern development' in Thar: Muslim pastoralists of north-west Rajasthan, India | |
| Ghai, Rahul | |
| 通讯作者 | Ghai, R (corresponding author), IIHMR Univ, Sch Dev Studies, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. |
| 来源期刊 | PASTORALISM-RESEARCH POLICY AND PRACTICE
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| ISSN | 2041-7136 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 卷号 | 11期号:1 |
| 英文摘要 | The paper attempts to understand the relation between pastoral cultures and irrigation-based intensive farming regimes promoted by modern development represented by the Indira Gandhi Canal (IGNP) in western Rajasthan. Participant observation and development practice engagement with pastoral communities over the past three decades give an opportunity to reflect on epistemic rationality that constitutes the discourse of modern development, formal statecraft of technocracy, and rule by experts. Historical markers of pastoralism in the interconnected regions of north-west Rajasthan and bordering regions of Multan and Bahawalpur in Pakistan are situated to trace the longuee duree of pastoral life systems in the Thar desert region. This oscillation between enhanced moisture regimes following inundation and increased desiccation of a moisture-deficient arid region has been at the core of sustaining the culture of pastoralism among semi-nomadic pastoralists of Muslim communities in north-west Rajasthan. The IGNP canal produces a space for modern development that opens up irrigated farming and an intensive natural resource use regime. This political economy of the IGNP canal systematically marginalizes pastoral natural resource use that was ecologically embedded. The varied experiences of adaptation responses by pastoral communities to this state-led marginalization points to the tenacious ability of pastoralism to continually adapt to the radically changing ecology. The paper argues for a complementarity of pastoral and farming use as an inclusive development vision. Beginnings can be made by a compassionate engagement with cultures of pastoralism that are endowed with resilience rooted in a historically constituted rationality to adapt and innovate with changing times. This may hold cues for a sustainable future of Thar. |
| 英文关键词 | Bikaner Sufi Mysticism pastoral resilience IGNP canal |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 开放获取类型 | DOAJ Gold |
| 收录类别 | ESCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000624603000002 |
| WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/352932 |
| 作者单位 | [Ghai, Rahul] IIHMR Univ, Sch Dev Studies, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ghai, Rahul. Understanding 'culture' of pastoralism and 'modern development' in Thar: Muslim pastoralists of north-west Rajasthan, India[J],2021,11(1). |
| APA | Ghai, Rahul.(2021).Understanding 'culture' of pastoralism and 'modern development' in Thar: Muslim pastoralists of north-west Rajasthan, India.PASTORALISM-RESEARCH POLICY AND PRACTICE,11(1). |
| MLA | Ghai, Rahul."Understanding 'culture' of pastoralism and 'modern development' in Thar: Muslim pastoralists of north-west Rajasthan, India".PASTORALISM-RESEARCH POLICY AND PRACTICE 11.1(2021). |
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