Why Pir Panjal's Gujjar Bakarwals are gazing joylessly at Jammu & Kashmir elections: Part 1

Tomorrow, Shopian district will vote in the first assembly election since Prime Minister Modi decided to abrogate Article 370 in 2019.Ethnic Kashmiris in Shopian, like voters across the region, are focused on special constitutional status and questions of ethnic identity. But the Gujjar-Bakarwal nomads who live in the Pir Panjal mountains, running along Shopian’s southern rim, are mainly talking about survival.

ThePrint Consulting Editor Praveen Swami, and Video Journalist Danish Mand Khan travelled four thousand metres above sea level to look at Pir Panjal's Gujjar Bakarwals & why they clash with authorities frequently.
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