Content deleted Content added
They are not gadariya Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
MaxA-Matrix (talk | contribs) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit |
||
Line 45:
===Relationship with Yadavs===
According to the [[1891 Census of India]], the pastoral class of Indian population was divided into two groups. First group was called cattle graziers which included [[Ahirs]], [[Gopas]], [[Gavli|Gawali]] and [[Golla (caste)|Golla]]. The second group was called shepherds which included [[Gadaria]], Dhangars, [[Kuruba]], [[Konar (caste)|Idaiyan]], [[Bharwad]] and [[Rabari]]
In the early 1920s, the leaders from the North Indian [[Ahir]] and the Maharashtrian [[Gavli]] community, who founded [[All-India Yadav Mahasabha]], insisted cowherds, herdsmen and milksellers all over India to call themselves Yadav, adopt the last name "Yadav", and practice vegetarianism and teetotalism. Various communities, all over India, who were traditionally involved in cattle related occupations enthusiastically followed these recommendations.{{sfnp|Rao|1979|p=141}} They claimed descendancy from the [[Yadu]] dynasty of the [[puranas]], hence the term ''Yadav'', through the [[Abhira tribe|Abhira]] tribe and [[Lord Krishna]], a cowherd, is the hero-god of Abhiras. This effort was part of the process of [[Sanskritization]] and Aryanization. Soon, the adoption of the name Yadav began to take traction.{{sfnp|Jaffrelot|2003|p=189,194-196}}{{sfnp|Gooptu|2001|p=205–210}}{{sfnp|Rao|1979|p=141}}
| |||