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Through these depictions, the show tries to tell the histories of the nomadic, tribal and agrarian communities for whom resilient survival was the leitmotif and cloth a way of narrating their marginalised experiences.

As a primarily agrarian country, India is particularly vulnerable to climate change.

By the mid-19th century, gleaning had faded into memory, a relic of premodern agrarian life overtaken by the relentless march of progress.

“People never thought that we would survive in this country because we were from a more agrarian background,” Vang said.

They had very different visions, one of an agrarian caste nation and the other an industrial power based on class, theoretically open to all races or castes.