Yadav
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Yadav, Jadam, or Jadav refers to a grouping of traditionally non-elite, peasant-pastoral communities or castes in India that since the 19th and 20th centuries have claimed descent from the mythological king Yadu as a part of a movement of social and political resurgence. The term Yadav now covers many traditional peasant-pastoral castes such as Ahirs of the Hindi belt and the Gavli of Maharashtra.
A group of Aheers, a major constituent of the Yadav group, from around Delhi, 1868, as appearing in a British ethnography purporting to understand the many castes and races of India.
A woman of the Ahir community, which falls within the Yadav group, harvesting wheat in western India. Many Yadavs have taken to non-traditional occupations
Two cowherds from the Gauwli caste (now a part of the Yadav group) in Berar (now in Maharashtra) 1874
A buffalo herder from the Lingayat Gauli caste (now a part of the Yadav group) in Mysore state (now Karnataka, 1875
Ahir
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Ahir or Aheer are a community of traditionally non-elite pastoralists in India, most members of which identify as being of the Indian Yadav community because they consider the two terms to be synonymous. The Ahirs are variously described as a caste, a clan, a community, a race and a tribe.
Raja Rao Puran Singh of Rewari
Asirgarh Fort in Burhanpur District in Madhya Pradesh, India
'B' Company (Ahir), 1st Battalion, The 5th Light Infantry, Quetta, 1918
Indian officers, 'B' Company (Ahir), 1st Battalion, 5th Light Infantry, Quetta 1918.