Yadavs are not the Yadavs of Lord Krishna - That is from Kind Yadu. These are basically people looking after cows etc in present UP and Bihar areas just joined to gether and started calling themselves as Yadavs.Chandragupta wrote:What's with Yadavs? Voting SP in UP, Laloo in Bihar. What are the dynamics here? Blindness?
We have to understand that the castes up to 1930 are all upward mobile. People started claming themselves as Kshathriyas etc immediately after they become rich and powerful. Every one want to be from good comunity. This shows that people want to claim greater social status to match their economic and other status. So every one is coming up socially. No claims of thousand years of backward and bramhical appressions etc but a simple claim that they are Khathiras etc.
In the same way a joint caste of Yadavs was born in UP. They are not the same like Jhadavs who are basically Suraseni rulers of Devgiri. Yadavs being joining of huge number of communities etc are numarically big in UP and behar areas - a basic cowbelt.