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The camel and sheep herding raikas could no longer move in Sindh after 1947.

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The above statement is true.
When grazing lands were converted to cultivated fields, the potential area of pasture land shrank. As pasture grounds were destroyed by ploughing, the existing animal herd was forced to forage on whatever grazing land remained. When limitations on pastoral migrations were established, grazing fields became consistently exploited, and the quality of pastures degraded. Pastoralists reacted in some ways to these developments. For instance, camel and sheep grouping Raikas could not go into Sindh to brush their camels on the banks of the Indus, as they had done beforehand. Over the long haul, a portion of the richer pastoralists started to obtain property and settle down, forsaking their migrant way of life.

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