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Aparna Rao and Michael Casimir estimated that nomads make up around 7% of the population of India. [2] [3] The nomadic communities in India can be divided into three groups: hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, and the peripatetic or non-food-producing groups. Among these, peripatetic nomads are neglected and discriminated against social group in ...
There are 315 Nomadic Tribes and 198 Denotified Tribes. A large section of the Nomadic pastoralist tribes are known as vimukta jatis or 'free / liberated jatis' because they were classed as such under the Criminal Tribes Act 1871, enacted under British rule in India. After Indian independence, this act was repealed by the Government of India in
This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region. Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries .
Spread throughout West Africa, the Fulani are the largest nomadic group in the world. In the 1950s as well as the 1960s, large numbers of Bedouin throughout the Middle East started to leave the traditional, nomadic life to settle in the cities of the Middle East, especially as home ranges have shrunk and population levels have grown.
In the history of China, Central Plain polities relied on horses to resist nomadic incursions into their territories, but were only able to purchase the needed horses from the nomads. Trading in horses actually gave these nomadic groups the means to acquire goods by commercial means and reduced the number of attacks and raids into the ...
The Book of the Hunter. ISBN 81-7046-204-5. Gandhi, Malli (2008). Denotified Tribes Dimensions of Change. Kanishka Publishers. ISBN 978-81-8457-065-6. Denotified and Nomadic Tribes in Maharashtra by Motiraj Rathod Harvard University; Racial Abuse against Denotified and Nomadic Tribes in India Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for ...
Hephthalites were divided into two groups: white huns and red huns. The latter owe their name to red headdresses, red armor, and a red banner. It is still unclear whether these groups were different tribes that were part of a confederation, or whether they were ethnic varieties that were part of a single tribal union.
They defeated a Huna army and their ruler Mihirakula in 528 CE and drove them out of India. [4] The Guptas are thought to have played only a minor role in this campaign. [3] The Hunas are thought to have included the Xionite and/or Hephthalite, the Kidarites, the Alchon Huns (also known as the Alxon, Alakhana, Walxon etc.) and the Nezak Huns.