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'''Kamaria''' is a subdivision of [[Ahir]]<ref name=":7"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.530143/page/n101/mode/2up?q=Kamaria&view=theater|title=Abhiras Their History And Culture|last=Survavanshi|first=Bhagwansingh|date=1962|language=en}}</ref> or [[Yadav]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cG5uAAAAMAAJ&q=kamaria+ahir|title=Coalition Politics and Power Sharing|last=Majeed|first=Akhtar|date=2000|publisher=Manak Publications Pvt. Limited|isbn=978-81-86562-96-3|language=en}}</ref> caste in [[India]]. <br />
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The Ahir Para of Mathura, i.e. the Sadar Bazaar, was established by two families originally from [[Kannauj district|Kannauj]], Chaudhari Parivar (the Head Family) and ''Dudh Parivar'' (the Milk Family). The Milk Family belonged to Tulsi Ram, a [[Sepoy]] of Deshwar [[gotra]] of the Kamaria clan.<ref name="Lucia Michelutti">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OIUAQAAIAAJ&q=phatak+ahir | title=The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste, and Religion in India Volume 1 of Exploring the political in South Asia | publisher=Routledge, Original from the University of California | author=Lucia Michelutti | year=2008 | pages=101 | isbn=9780415467322}}</ref>{{page needed|date=December 2024}} As of today, this family owns the Mahadev Ghat Akhara.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8bfCgAAQBAJ&dq=Mahadev+Ghat,+Yadav&pg=PA53|title=Power and Influence in India: Bosses, Lords and Captains|last1=Price|first1=Pamela|last2=Ruud|first2=Arild Engelsen|date=2012-07-26|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-19799-4|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Lucia Michelutti"/>{{page needed|date=December 2024}} Kamaria Ahir used to have [[Zamindar|Zamindari]] in Jaurasi, a village in [[Gwalior]], [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xjIKAQAAIAAJ&q=kamaria+zamindar|title=Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute|last=Institute|first=Deccan College Post-graduate and Research|date=1964|publisher=Dr. A. M. Ghatage, director, Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XW7aAAAAMAAJ&q=kamaria+zamindar|title=Caste Dimensions in a Village|last=Mutatkar|first=Ramchandra Keshav|date=1978|publisher=Shubhada-Saraswat|language=en}}</ref>{{page needed|date=December 2024}} Kamaria Ahirs are mostly found in western [[Uttar Pradesh]] and in some parts of Madhya Pradesh, which includes [[Mathura]], [[Agra]], [[Etawah]] (most numerous in Etawah),<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Rani |first=Usha |date=1978 |title=Cultural Geography of Ahir's in Uttar Pradesh |url=https://core.ac.uk/reader/144511410 |type=Master's thesis |chapter=Chapter IV: The Ahirs of Uttar Pradesh |page=132}}</ref> [[Mainpuri]], [[Etah]], [[Firozabad district|Firozabad]],<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bgpEIb4tNjgC&q=etawah+mainpuri+kamaria|title=Caste in Question: Identity Or Hierarchy?|last=Gupta|first=Dipankar|date=2004-12-08|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3324-3|language=en}}</ref> [[Jhansi]], [[Gwalior]], [[Bhind]], [[Shivpuri]], and [[Jabalpur]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jUwFL3IipK0C&dq=Kaoras+or+Kamarias&pg=PA60|title=Dimensions of Human Cultures in Central India: Professor S.K. Tiwari Felicitation Volume|last=Abbasi|first=A. A.|date=2001|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-186-0|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Notables ==<br />
[[File:The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav meeting the Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia to finalize Annual Plan 2005-06 of the State, in New Delhi on December 30, 2004.jpg|thumb|203x203px|[[Mulayam Singh Yadav]], a Kamaria Ahir (standing at right)]]<br />
Notable figures include:<br />
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* [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]],<ref name="Sarkar">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RG4ZEAAAQBAJ&q=kamariya+&pg=PT131|title=Politics as Social Text in India: The Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh|last=Sarkar|first=Jayabrata|date=2021-03-30|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-000-37037-9|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9cYoZaNxMcC&dq=mulayam+yadav+kamaria&pg=PA213|title=Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India|last=Chandra|first=Kanchan|date=2007-02-15|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-89141-7|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOYJEAAAQBAJ&dq=mulayam+yadav+kamaria&pg=PT44|title=The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste and Religion in India|last=Michelutti|first=Lucia|date=2020-11-29|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-000-08400-9|language=en}}</ref> the founder of [[Samajwadi Party]] (SP), Former Chief Minister of [[Uttar Pradesh]] and former Defense Minister of India.{{cn|date=December 2024}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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