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Living with animals: case of Saphale, Maharashtra

Hybrids and Cohabitation
Shivani Patil, 2022


This thesis tells us about the transforming relationship between humans and animals that shaped the spatiality of Saphale, Palghar over the last 50 years. What was once a forest has turned into agricultural land and now morphed into modern infrastructure.

There is an inside-outside relationship between those people and animals. Modernity has brought sharp segregation between humans and other species that once co-inhabited space. Now, they share the same space but with a wall in between. However, this affects not only human-animal relations but also human-human relations, and human-space relations. How do we create environments that are empathetic to the needs of animals in a rapidly urbanizing economy?

There's a strong relationship between the humans and animals of Saphale. Seven cases in Saphale with the relationship between humans and non-humans have been studied. These seven cases/stories are further classified into three analyses. The first is the expansion of houses/sheds/businesses. The people of Saphale have developed their houses based on this animal income. The second is the type of animals. Doing business with only one type of animal does not give them good income, so they started introducing new animals. There is a wide range of animals which is a source of income. Cows and buffaloes for milk, Hens for chicken, goats for meat, horses on rent, etc. The third is adding new business. Along with the milk, chicken, and meat shops, some started selling eggs, masalas, dairy products, cooked chicken food, etc. All these shifts from an agrarian economy into a pastoral economy and then from a pastoral economy to a mercantile economy.

The conclusion of the thesis is that because of those animals the village has been urbanised. From the green patch, i.e green land has been converted into a new housing area with respect to animals. Space has been transferred because of this coexistence as the humans and animals were initially living together under one roof and now the humans and animals are segregated. There is a clear distinction between living and animal space.


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