The Yaduvanshi Aheer or Yaduvanshi Ahir claim descent from god Krishna of the ancient Yadava clan.[1] The Ahirs have three major classifications - Yaduvanshi, Nandavanshi and Gwalavanshi. Yaduvanshis claim descent from Yadu, Nandavanshis claim descent from Nanda, the foster father of Krishna and Gwalavanshis claim descent from gopis and gopas of Krishna's childhood.[2][3]

As per anthropologist Bhrigupati Singh in Classical Hinduism Krishna was from the Yaduvanshi Ahir tribe.[4][5]

Historians such as P. M. Chandorkar has used epigraphical evidence to argue that Ahirs and Gawlis are representative of the ancient Abhiras and Yadavas tribe mentioned in Sanskrit works.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Yadav, Sanjay (2011). The Environmental Crisis of Delhi: A Political Analysis. Worldwide Books. ISBN 978-81-88054-03-9.
  2. ↑ Singh, Bhrigupati (6 April 2015). Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-19468-4.
  3. ↑ Michelutti, Lucia (2002). Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a north Indian town. University of London.
  4. ↑ Singh, Bhrigupati (2015). Poverty and the Quest for Life. University of Chicago. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-226-19468-4.
  5. ↑ Dahlaquist, Allan (1996). Megasthenes and Indian Religion. Motilal Banarsidass Publisher. p. 85. ISBN 9788120813236.
  6. ↑ Guha, Sumit (2006). Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991. University of Cambridge. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-521-02870-7.
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