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भटकंती चे घर : Architecture of movement and memory  

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Ayush Patil, 2025


Having been born and brought up in Boisar, Palghar, I have witnessed since childhood the arrival of nomadic tribes - the Dhangar Community (Shepherds) who, along with their goats, horses, dogs, and cattle, set up tents and lived temporarily on the outskirts of the city. Their presence was cyclical, appearing at a certain time of the year and disappearing soon after. This recurring movement evoked a curiosity in me: Why do they move? Where do they stay for the rest of the year? What does ‘home’ mean to them?

This thesis emerges from that curiosity, exploring how the Dhangar community manages their homemaking practices while on move during their four month seasonal migration between Kolhapur and Solapur, Maharashtra. For the Dhangars, home is not a fixed dwelling but a condition that travels with them built through landscapes, rhythms, animals, and seasons. Their idea of belonging unfolds through migration, where the acts of herding, halting, and settling temporarily become a continuous form of homemaking. The study focuses on three Dhangar households, examining how their shelters, routes, and relationships with animals, landlords, and terrain shape their spatial imagination. It questions what forms of spatiality emerge through their traditional lifestyle and how these practices redefine what architecture means to the Dhangar community.

Through field narratives, oral histories, and mapping, the research reveals how temporary shelters, grazing fields, and animal enclosures form evolving architectures of belonging. Here, home becomes a fluid and shifting spatial condition constructed through movement, memory, and coexistence between humans, animals, and the landscape. As the title suggests, भटकंती चे घर, these traditions of migration conceptualise the idea of home as a sense of belonging without ownership.

Read also under ‘Memory and Belonging’:


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Spatialities of everyday heritage



Memory and Belonging
Aashika Vijaykar, 2020

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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home


Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 2024

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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort


Memory and Belonging
Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

Memory and Belonging
Dhruv Chavan, 2018

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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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Retrofitted domesticities


Memory and Belonging
Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

Memory and Belonging
Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

Memory and Belonging
Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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