INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -pastoral nomadism, one of the three general types of nomadism, a way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically. Pastoral nomads, who depend on domesticated livestock, migrate in an established territory to find pasturage for their animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nomads are the people who keep moving from place to place. They are the people with no settled home, they move to obtain food or make a living, finding pasture for livestocks. Nomade means people without permanent or fixed habitation. They mostly follow a fixed annual or seasonal pattern for movements or settlements.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nomadic herding involves herdsmen moving from place to place with their animals for fodder and water, along defined routes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nomads keep moving from one place to another due to unfavourable environment, climatic conditions and terrain.

Detailed explanation-5: -They are an endogamous sub-group of the Baheliya community. Like many other gypsy like communities in North India, they were nomadic and traditionally beggars and hunters.