How did the pastoralists react to the changes brought about by colonial rule?

(i) Since the new boundaries between India and Pakistan were drawn, it stopped their- movement. So they started looking for new places to go. In recent years, they have been migrating to Haryana where sheep can graze on the agricultural fields after the harvests are cut.
(ii) Over the years, some richer pastoralists began buying land and settling down, giving up their nomadic life. Some became settled peasants, while others became traders. When Pastoralists lost their cattle and sheep, they started working on the fields in small towns’
(iii) when pastureland was closed to them in one place, they changed the direction of their movement, reduced the size of the herd and combined their pastoral activity with other activities to supplement their income and adapted to the changes in the modern world’