Yādav è un termine per riferirsi ad un gruppo di comunità agricola-guerriero-pastorale Quote: Ahir: Caste title of North Indian non-elite 'peasant'-pastoralists, known also as Yadav." Quote: "In southernAwadh, eastern North-Western Provinces, and much of Bihar, non-labouring gentry groups lived in tightly knit enclaves among much larger populations of non-elite 'peasants' and labouring people. These other grouping included 'untouchable' Chamars and newly recruited 'tribal' labourers, as well as non-elite tilling and cattle-keeping people who came to be known by such titles as Kurmi, Koeri and Goala/Ahir." Quote: "The Yadavs are one of India's largest 'Other Backward Classes,' a government term that covers most of India's Sudra castes. Yadavs are the traditional cowherd caste of North India and are relatively low down on the traditional pecking order, but not as low as the untouchable Mahars or Chamars." Quote: "The Yadavs were traditionally a low-to-middle-ranking cluster of pastoral-peasant castes that have become a significant political force in Uttar Pradesh (and other northern states like Bihar) in the last thirty years.",o caste, che discendono dal mitologico re Yadu.
Il termine Yadav include ora diverse caste tradizionali di proprietari terrieri come gli Ahiri della cintura indù (una regione linguistica dell'India centro-settentrionale), i Gavli del Maharashtra, i Goala dell' Andhra Pradesh e i Konar del Tamil Nadu. Nella regione della cintura indù, "Ahir", "Gwala" e "Yadav" sono sinonimi.
In molti stati dell'India, gli Yadav sono considerati nella categoria delle "altre classi arretrate".
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