ABSTRACT
This first empirical chapter presents mobile pastoralist perspectives on education and deprivation derived from action research on migration in the 1990s. I explore, here, views among the two Rabari groups introduced in the previous chapter: Dhebars moving in Saurashtra; and Vagads moving in North Gujarat. Through teaching, learning sessions and participant observation, respondent concerns over education deprivation and a devaluing of their social identity were voiced. These reveal the terms of inclusion that respondents associated with formal and non-formal education, and how they judged the acceptability of those terms in relation to their perspectives on current and desired economic, relational and subjective well-being.
