The intergenerational cycle of educational deprivation among the Bakarwals reinforces the community's ‘second-class status’ and denies them a chance to break free from the confines of marginalisation.
The Bakarwals have been reduced to inexpensive sources of labour for the collection of forest produce, in construction or agricultural labour, and when it comes to shepherding contracts. This comes at a cost.
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