Himalayan Research Bulletin

23. Bakerwal nomad, Azad Kashmir

This pohtograph was taken at a nomadic Bakerwal (goatherder) migration camp near Balakot, on the border of the North West Frontier Province and Azad Jammu & Kashmir in May 2000. At Balakot, the large camps broke into small clans that could travel quickly through the Attmaquam district of Azad JAmmu & Kashmir to the high mountain grazing grounds of the Gurez Valley in Baltistan. The route from Balakot to Baltistan runs through mountain passes within range of Indian Army artillery fire and requires passing frequently through PAkistani Army checkpoints. I am an anthropologist who accompanied this young woman's Bakerwal clan from their winter camp in the Pakistani Punjab to the border of Kashmir. The clan elders were refugees from the Indian side of the military Line of Control that divides Kashmir. Their hereditary migration routes would have taken them through Raisi, the Pir Panjal Pass, the Kashmir Valley and Kargil into the Gurez Valley.

Cabeiri deB. Robinson
cdr3@cornell.edu

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