This discourse claims that social groups lower in the social hierarchy are primarily driven by their caste identity while voting. As for Muslims, their obsession, the upper-caste discourse claims, is to vanquish the BJP as they cannot countenance any party that refuses to pamper them or, alternatively, espouses the cause of Hindus. This discourse glosses over the marked preference the upper castes have for the BJP, evident from anecdotal accounts as well as the election studies of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, which look at voting behaviour and patterns.
Yet, the upper castes do not think their caste or religious considerations drive their preference for the BJP.
Instead, the discourse they have created is that they vote for the party because its rule would be beneficial to the nation or the states. At times, however, this discourse seems to be at complete variance with the ground reality.
Or a Punjabi, Manohar Lal Khattar, drops his surname as soon as he becomes chief minister of Haryana. The ensuing fuss over such decisions, ironically, turns the spotlight on the community to which the BJP chief minister belongs.
He fashioned for himself an alluring image of Mr Development. According to the upper caste-driven discourse, strategies such as those of Modi or Khattar are inevitable in a democracy like India and an experiment in social engineering — a term that entails stitching together different communities into a seamless political tapestry.
No quarrels with that. Yet, the same generosity is rarely displayed while interpreting the electoral manoeuvres of Mayawati, Lalu Yadav, Mulayam Yadav or Kumar. When they give tickets to, say, a Brahmin or Rajput, theirs is not deemed to be a case of social engineering, or attempts at re-calibrating the social cohesion upset over the last 27 years. It is also stated that the Allahabad iron pillar inscription of Samudragupta fourth century AD mentions the Abhiras as one of the states of west and south west India.
A fourth century AD inscription found in Nashik speaks of an Abhira king and there is proof that in the middle of the fourth century the Abhiras were settled in eastern Rajputana and Malwa. Similarly, when the Kathis arrived in Gujarat in the eighth century, they found the greater part of the country in the possession of the Ahirs. The Mirzapur district of the United Provinces has a tract known as Ahraura, named after the Ahir and another piece of country near Jhansi was called Ahirwar. The Ahirs were also kings of Nepal at the beginning of the Christian era.
Khandesh and the Tapti valley were other regions where they were kings. The Gavlis rose to political power in Deogarh, on the Chhindwara Plateau in the central provinces. The Saugar traditions traced down the Gavli supremacy to a much later date, as the tracts of Etawa and Khurai are said to have been governed by the chieftains till the close of the seventeenth century.
Some early inscriptions, dated and , have implied that the Hoysalas of Mysore were also the descendants of the original Yadava clan, by referring to the Yadava vamsa clan as Hoysala vamsa. The founder of the Wodeyar dynasty, Vijaya, also claimed descent from the Yadu and took on the name Yadu-Raya. Many ruling Rajput clans of India traced their origin to the Yaduvanshi lineage, a major branch of the Chandravanshi Kshatriyas. These include the Banaphars and the Jadejas. Legends of the cowherd Krishna and his dances with cowherdesses are mentioned in the Sangam classics.
The term Ayarpati cowherd settlement is found in Cilappatikaram. It is argued that the term Ayar has been used for the Abhiras in ancient Tamil literature, and V. Kanakasabha Pillai derives Abhira from the Tamil word Ayir which also means cow.
He equates the Ayars with Abhiras, and scholars treat this as evidence of migration of the Abhiras to the south in the first century AD. The lineage of several rulers of ancient and medieval India is traced to Yadu.
Singh, a famous historian, gives the following account in his Yadav's Through The Ages, " he Hoysalas ruled illustriously for over three centuries and have left in the country imperishable monuments of art and culture. They were family of kings who ruled over practically the whole of the Kannada country at the height of their power.
They scheduled the hill tribes known as Malepas in the Western Ghats and they assumed the title 'Maleparoleganda'. The account of their origin can be traced in some of their inscriptions. They claimed Sosevura Sasakapura of Sanskrit writers as their birthplace. This place has been identified with Angadi of Mudigere Taluk in chikamanglura district.
It has been mentioned as the seen of the incident between Sala and the tiger. When Sala,' an ornament of the Yaduvamsa' Yaduvamsojvala tilakan was worshiping the goddess Vasantike of Sasakapura, a tiger came from the forest. The holiman Sodutta, who was there gave him his fan saying 'Poysala' Strike, Sala.
Sala killed the tiger. From that time the name of Poysala become the designation of the Yadava kings E. VI, Cm. Almost the same account, though differing in certain details, is found in many of their inscriptions.
According to another version, when Sala was hunting along the slopes of the Sahya mountains or the Western Ghats , he was astonished to see a hare SKt. Sasa pursuing a tiger, while he was walking alone saying to himself, 'this is heroic soil', a holy muni near by, being afraid of the tiger, called out 'Poy-Sala' and before it could proceed the length of a span Sala slew it with his sword E.
It is after this incident that the place came to be known as Sasakapura. According to S. Raychoudhary author of Social, Cultural and Economic History of India , a noted historian, "The Pandya kingdom generally associated with the Pandus of the Mahabarata covered the districts of Madura and Tinnivelly as well as certain portions of south Travancore. Manickam in his path-breaking work Kongu Nadu gives an expanded version of his doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Madras as follows, "It was noted that the pastoral people Ayar of the Mullai land in Kongu formed the major component of the Vellalar community of the medieval period.
It is Dr. Manickam thesis that the Vellalar of Kongu were nothing but the pastoral people of Kongu, of course,with some additions p Further, there are also references to Tiruvayappadi nattar, which indicate the supra-local activities of the herdsmen discussed in chapter The presence of the herdsmen, with the titles as found in the macro region, may be explained as survivors of the pastoral people of the pre-Chola period who were reluctant to integrate themselves in the new setup or new additions.
Rawal Jaisal laid the foundation stone of Jaisalmer in A. He hailed from the Yaduvanshi Rajput kin group. The city has an interesting legend associated with it, according to which, Lord Krishna, the head of the Yadav Clan, foretold Arjuna, one of the Pandava brothers of the Mahabharata that a remote descendent of the Yadav Clan would build his kingdom atop the Trikuta Hill.
His prophecy was fulfilled in AD when Rawal Jaisal, abandoned his fort at Lodurva and founded a new capital Jaisalmer, perched on the Trikuta Hill. However, historical facts contradicts this claim, because Trikuta Hill is actually near Deccan, a range of hills bordering Nashik, where one Abhira dynasty, Traikuta, directly claiming descent from ancient Haihai Yadav King, Nala, in 5th century A. The name of the State of Haryana may have been derived from its ancient inhabitants: Abhirayana.
Some of the villages in Ahirwal with Yadav prominence are In Marubhumi Marwar , Saurashtra and Maharashtra they served the local rulers and established their own rule. Ishwarsena, a great Ahir general, became master of Western Deccan in place of the famous Satava-hanas. He took the title of Rajan and an era was named after him. His descendants continued to rule for nine generations.
Pran Sukh Yadav — was an extraordinary military commander of his time. In his early career he trained Sikh Khalsa army. After the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh he fought in both the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars, due to his extreme hatred towards Britishers after the defeat of Sikhs he started giving military training to the farmers of Narnaul and Mahendragarh region.
For centuries the Ahirs were eclipsed as a political power in Haryana until the time of the Pratihara dynasty. In time they became independent rulers of Southwest Haryana. Most of them live in the region around Rewari, Narnaul, Mahendragarh and Gurgaon which is therefore known as Ahirwal or the abode of Ahirs.
The Seuna, Sevuna or Yadava dynasty - was an Indian dynasty, which at its peak ruled a kingdom stretching from the Tungabhadra to the Narmada rivers, including present-day Maharashtra, north Karnataka and parts of Madhya Pradesh, from its capital at Devagiri present-day Daulatabad in Maharashtra.
It claimed descent from the Chandravanshi Yadavs of North India. Solaskars are another group that belong to the Kshatriya Yadav clan, and claim to be the successors of the Yadavas of Devagiri. They are the protectors of sixteen Shiva temples situated in the hillside region of Satara.
The village is recognized by an old and nice temple of Shul-Pateshwar. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday reached out to non-BJP leaders across the country seeking their support on the issue of caste census for backward classes, which has received a cold shoulder from the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday reiterated the demand for caste census and favoured "breaking" the 50 per cent ceiling on reservations if the population of SCs, STs and OBCs was found to be more than half of the total.
A cross-party delegation led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning to discuss the conduct of a caste-based census in the state and across the country and called on him to take "the appropriate decision".
He said the PM has been meeting other but not the Chief Minister. He is now carrying the battle scars of that contest over to Assam, which is set to vote in March-April.
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