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Sadar (festival)
Sadar ( సదర్)is a buffalo carnival celebrated annually by the Yadav community of Hyderabad, Telangana, India as a part of Diwali. It is also known as ''Dunnapothula panduga( దున్నపోతుల పండుగ) ( In Telugu for Festival of the Buffalo Cattle)'' and it occurs on the second day after Diwali. The buffaloes are decorated with garlands of flowers, painted horns, and paraded through the streets, often accompanied by the crowd dancing to the sounds of teen maar Special Yadav Band (Da Daniki). The animals are sometimes encouraged to rear up on their hind legs. Sadar was started by the late Sri Salandri Nyayam Chowdhary Mallaiah Yadav in 1946 at Naryanguda YMCA, Hyderabad. Even though over time Sadars have been organized in many other localities of Hyderabad by their respective Chowdhary, Narayanguda YMCA Sadar (near Reddy women's college) attracts largest crowd due to its history and popularity. Hence is called ''Pedha Sadar''. Narayanguda YMCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yadav
Yadav refers to a grouping of traditionally non-elite, 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." peasant- pastoral communities or castes in India that since the 19th and 20th centuries Quote: "In a not dissimilar way the various cow-keeping castes of northern India were combining in 1931 to use the common term of Yadava for their various castes, Ahir, Goala, Gopa, etc., and to claim a Rajput origin of extremely doubtful authenticity." have claimed descent from the mythological king Yadu as a part of a movement of social and political resurgence. Quote: "The movement, which had a wide interregional spread, attempted to submerge regional names such as Goala, Ahir, Ahar, Gopa, etc., in favour of the generic term Yadava (Rao 1979). Hence a number of pastoralist castes were subsumed under Yadava, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
