The Ahir Yadav Kshatriya Mahasabha (AYKM) is an organization of the

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 state ...

caste, founded in

Rewari Rewari is a city and a Municipal Council in Rewari district in the Indian state of Haryana. King of Rewari is Rao Onkar Singh.It is located in south-west Haryana around 82 km from Delhi

, British India, in 1910 by Rao Balbir Singh. The association claimed that the Ahirs were originally known as Yadavs (see Yadava), and descended from the Yadu dynasty, to which Krishna belonged. It claimed a Kshatriya status for the caste, relying on colonial British ethnographers who described the Ahirs as related to the ancient

Abhiras The Abhira tribe is mentioned in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. A historical people of the same name are mentioned in the ''Periplus of the Erythraean Sea''. They are thought to be people who moved in from eastern Iran in the aftermath of ...

. The association promoted the caste unity by promoting the members of the caste to downplay endogamous subdivisions.

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{{reflist Organizations established in 1910 1910 in India Ahir Kshatriya