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CBSE - History - Pastoralists in the Modern World

Pastoralists in the Modern World

Short Answer Type

Can you explain the social life of Gollas of Mysore According to Buchanan? 

Buchanan a traveler, travel through Mysore and wrote about Gollas.

1. Their families live in small villages near the skirt of the woods, where they cultivate a little ground, and keep some of their cattle selling in the towns the produce of dairy.

2. Their families are very numerous, seven to eight young men in each being common.

3. Two or three of these attend the flocks in the woods, while the remainder cultivate their fields, and supply the towns with firewood, and with straw for thatch 

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