The Bakarwals of Jammu and Kashmir and their changing marriage rituals

Abstract The Bakarwals of Jammu and Kashmir are a nomadic pastoral group, notified as a Scheduled Tribe (ST), under the Jammu and Kashmir Scheduled Tribes Act, 1991. Ensuing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Bakarwals in the Jammu and Kashmir region, this paper argues that the tradition...

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Main Author: Sajad Ahmad Dar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-01
Series:Pastoralism
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-022-00264-2