Glorification of Nomadic Life Style in Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon

Abstract

The research discusses nomadism as waning culture from its existence in Jamil Ahmad’s The Wandering Falcon which also has been losing its value from the modern world. Due to the degradation of rangeland, desertification, State’s law, rules, regulation and urbanization become serious problem to nomadic life. Nomads are influenced by modern culture as well as greed of monitorial prosperity have compelled them to aside from own old traditional culture of wandering and they begin private/individual settlement life instead of collective/group. The novel consist of different stories, projects a device character named Tor Baz wanders the different region of pasture land and finally decree his wandering life to begin permanent settled life with a girl named Shah Zarina. As Philip Carl Salzman conceptualized that this small minority ‘nomadic people’ identifies people in trouble or who may be in trouble, has a value and integrity that should not be disgraced. Though modernism caused rapid changes in the world the value of old nomadic culture must be valorized and proper settlement should be managed for them by respective administration for their identity in future. Keywords: nomadism, rangeland, urbanization, mobility, socio-economic status, political instability