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Kothiyal, Tanuja

Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert Tanuja Kothiyal. - Daryaganj, Delhi, India Cambridge University Press 2016 - xvii, 299 pages : map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-288) and index.

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.

"Discusses the emergence of socio-historical identities in the Thar Desert with the mobility of its inhabitants"--

ISBN: 9781107080317

LCCN: 2015014741

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nomads--History.--Thar Desert (India and Pakistan)
Migration, Internal--History.--Thar Desert (India and Pakistan)
Group identity--History.--Thar Desert (India and Pakistan)
Human geography--History.--Thar Desert (India and Pakistan)
Human ecology--History.--Thar Desert (India and Pakistan)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Thar Desert (India and Pakistan)--Social conditions.
Thar Desert (India and Pakistan)--Geography.
Thar Desert (India and Pakistan)--Environmental conditions.

LC Class. No.: DS485.T476 / K68 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 305.9069 / K8487