ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates education among pastoralists in a sedentary setting: the all-Rabari hamlet of Bhojraj, in Western Kachchh. Bhojraj is (in planning parlance) a habitation, lying some three kilometres from Kotda Roha (the nearest village with about 2000 inhabitants) and 60 kilometres south-west of Bhuj, the District capital. Most households sustain themselves by combining pastoralism, on a very small scale, with day labouring. Bhojraj has had a lower primary school (Years I–V) since 1990, and although the National Literacy Mission’s Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) had begun in Kachchh in August 1993, it ‘included’ Bhojraj residents for just three days.
