Reviewed by Aniruddha Sheth
Routes and resistance
- Biblio: A Review of Books
- 30(7-8), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.25-25
Uprooted: A graphic account of the struggle for forest rights by Ita Mehrotra Context Westland books, Chennai, 2025, 144pp. Rs. 599 (PB) ISBN 9789360455545.
As a narrative of pastoralist life. Uprooted opens up conversations around historical migration routes to alien pastures and the selling of milk to nearly villages. It speaks of change as a persistent condition. of how the Van Gujjars centime to adapt, even migrating to the plans in response to emerging markets and income opportunities. Pastoralist may be arduous, and sustaining it ever more difficult, but Mehrotra suggest that it remind the thread linking the Van Gujjars to heir forests –Reproduced