India’s gujjars say they are being forced from lands they have occupied for generations
The winter snow falls heavily on the mountainside hamlet of Mamal Wuder in south Kashmir, but inside Naseema Akhtar’s mud hut the air is soft and warm, steam rising from the pink salt tea that she shuffles about preparing.
Akhtar, 35, is a gujjar, one of a nomadic tribe of herders who traditionally spend summer in mountainous forests across the Kashmir valley in India and migrate to either the plains of Jammu or the foothill villages of Kashmir during winter.
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