Inclusion of the excluded is the order of the day. This book deals with the inclusion of one of the most deprived communities called Pacha Kutra Koravars in India. It is a nomadic community which decided to sedentarize. The book is the documentation of their sedentarization process through self help methodologies. The book analyses the process of change that they had to address with reference to their traditional belief and value system. This includes the loss and gain on the component of gender, which is a factor of positivity in the traditional nomadic communities.
This book traces the historical background of the community form their nomadic way of life up to their sedentarization and the change of livelihood options form tattooing and trapping of small animals to service and retail entrepreneurship. The book also analyses the resistance to their sedentraization effort by other local communities due to their identity as a thieving community. This is a misconception based on the value for common and shared ownership of resources in a nomadic community, which makes the concept of theft absent in their value system. The book identifies the impact of self-help initiatives undertaken by the community for its integration and inclusion. It focuses on three strategic approaches of the Koravars towards their integration and inclusion, namely, activation of their self-help initiatives to the optimum, building on their strengths to overcome constrains, and self-employment as a means of alternative livelihood.
This book will prove a good source to all those who are interested in the process of self-help initiatives, particularly policy makers, researchers and students of sociology, anthropology and development.
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