Portraits of Everyday Life in the Indian State of Gujarat

She explained that they normally move for about eight months of the year, then return to their village for four — but that year, 2012, the monsoon rains never came. Typically, she said, the whole family travels together, which is why her children can’t go to school. But she had now left her older three children in their village with her mother-in-law, as this “special migration,” she said, was particularly tough. Her sister-in-law, Puriben Rozia, put it succinctly: “Every day a new fire hearth; every day a new well.”

There was Prabhubhai Kalar, 19 years old, from the Rabari tribe, who was to be married on the day I met him. Dressed in a robe and crown embroidered with purple sequins, with heavy lines of kohl below his eyes, he was more ambivalent than his attire implied.

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