Title: Nomadic Narratives : A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert /
Authors: Kothiyal, Tanuja,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Nomads Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) History.; Migration, Internal Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) History.; Group identity Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) History.; Human geography Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) History.; Human ecology Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) History.; Ecology; Geography; Group identity; Human ecology; Human geography; Migration, Internal; Nomads; Social conditions.; Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) Social conditions.; Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) Geography.; Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) Environmental conditions.; Asia Thar Desert
Abstract: "Discusses the emergence of socio-historical identities in the Thar Desert with the mobility of its inhabitants"--
Contents: Glossary -- Geographical imagination and the narrative of a region -- Mobility, polity, territory -- Itinerants of the Thar : mobility and circulation -- Expanding state contracting space : the Thar in the nineteenth century -- Narratives of mobility and mobility of narratives.