This paper comes out from the literature review done on nomadism and the issues concerning it in modern democracy. Drawing from the nomadic v/s sedentary debate throughout human history, this paper attempts to point out to an inherently present hostility in civilizational discourses towards the nomadic existence through the chronological reading for the academic perceptions about nomadism since the origin of the modern state. This review paper attempts to take the reader through the academic discourses emerged over around a century on the issue of nomadism and what patterns does it show which helps formulating modern state its policies for the nomads. The objective is to be able to find the gaps in academic understanding of the issue which has lead to further marginalization of the nomadic people around the globe
