https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Ahar_casteAhar caste - Revision history2026-07-31T04:29:33ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Ahar_caste&diff=447105&oldid=prevSachin Soni at 15:35, 5 September 20252025-09-05T15:35:02Z<p></p>
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{{infobox ethnic group|<br />
| group = Ahar<br />
| poptime = <br />
| popplace = India<br />
| langs = • [[Hindi language|Hindi]] • [[Braj Bhasha]]<br />
| rels = • [[Hinduism]]<br />
| related = • [[Ahir]]• [[Yaduvanshi Ahirs]]<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Ahars''', also called [[Ahir]] or [[Yadav]], are a peasant or agricultural caste of [[North India]].<ref name="oliver">{{cite book |last1=Mendelsohn |first1=Oliver |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FGbp9MjhvKAC&q=ahar+ahir&pg=PR11 |title=The untouchables : subordination, poverty and the state in modern India |last2=Vicziany |first2=Marika |date=1998 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521556712 |edition=1. publ. |location=Cambridge |page=xi |language=en |access-date=10 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="hind">{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Mohinder |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ed0EAAAAMAAJ&q=ahar+ahir |title=The Depressed Classes: Their Economic and Social Condition |date=1947 |publisher=Hind Kitabs |page=130 |language=en |access-date=10 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="jasssal">{{cite book |last1=Jassal |first1=Smita Tewari |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Okrp_sZqmbEC&q=ahar+ahir&pg=PA213 |title=Unearthing gender : folksongs of North India |date=2012 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0822351306 |location=Durham, N.C. |page=213 |language=en |access-date=10 August 2016}}</ref> <br />
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The group labelled Ahar were generally found in a few west-central districts of India, but in the 1931 census of India appeared in large numbers recorded in the north-central districts, though not in any of the districts between the former and latter.<ref name="Opposition in a Dominant-Party System">{{cite book |title=Opposition in a Dominant-Party System |year=1969 |url=https://archive.org/details/oppositionindomi0000burg |url-access=registration |access-date=18 February 2013 |publisher=University of California Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/oppositionindomi0000burg/page/26 26] |first=Angela S. |last=Burger}}</ref> They claim to be descended from [[Yadu]] race.<ref name="GRGARG">{{cite book|last1=Garg|first1=Gangaram|title=Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World, Volume 1|date=1992|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=9788170223740|page=239|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9pmo51lRnYC&q=ahar+ahir&pg=PA239|access-date=6 March 2016}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Ahir clans |state=collapsed}}<br />
[[Category:Ahir]]</div>Sachin Soni