Vol. 8 · No. 2 · 2004
Livelihood Strategies Of A Nomadic Hunting Community Of Eastern RajasthanBahar Dutt
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Conducted over a period of six months, the study involved extensive dialogue with individual Bawaria in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, and participatory workshops. Subsequently a detailed questionnaire was developed and 105 individuals in the region were interviewed. The aims and objectives of the study were as follows:
- to enable an ethnographic account of the Bawaria community;
- to understand their livelihood strategies, especially in view of the ban on their main occupation, hunting;
- to understand the relations they have with different state agencies and upper caste landowners on whose land they build their semipermanent settlements.