Answer:
Under
colonial rule when grazing lands were taken over and turned into cultivated
fields, the available area of pasture land started declining .
The pastoralists reacted to these changes in a different ways
(i) Some pastoralists reduced their number of cattle as there
was not enough pasture to feed them. Others discovered new pastures, when old
grazing areas were not available.
(ii) After 1947, the Raikas could no longer move into Sindh.
The new political boundaries between India and Pakistan stopped their movement.
So in recent years, they have been migrating to Haryana, where sheep can graze
agricultural fields after the harvests.
The fields also need manure that the animals can provide.
(iii) The rich pastoralists started buying land and gave
up their nomadic life. Some have become peasants while others have taken
extensive trading some poor pastoralists borrowed money from money lenders to survive.
Many of them have lost their cattle and became labourers, working on fields on
in small towns.
(iv) In spite of all these difficulties, pastoralists not only continue
to survive, in many areas their numbers have expanded over recent decades.
When pasturelands in one place was closed to them, they changed the direction
of their movement and reduced the size of the herd. Sometimes they combined
pastoral activity with other forms of income and adapted to the changes in the
modern world.
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