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{{Infobox caste<br />
| caste_name=Hindu Ghosi<br />
| subdivisions= [[Yaduvanshi|Krishnavanshi or Yaduvanshi]] [[Ahir]] [[Phatak]]<br />
| populated_states= [[Delhi|Near Delhi]], [[Ahirwal]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Madhya Pradesh]] and [[Bihar]] a<br />
| languages=[[Hindi]], [[Bhojpuri]], [[Brajbhasha]] and [[Ahirwati]]<br />
| religions=[[Hinduism]]<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Hindu Ghosi''' (also spelled '''Ghosee''')<br />
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==origin==<br />
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They also claim their importance saying that the sacred texts have mentioned them under the name of Ghosas.<ref name="phd">{{cite book|last1=Michelutti|first1=Lucia|title=Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town|date=2002|publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science University of London|pages=94, 95|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2106/1/U613338.pdf|access-date=15 March 2016}}</ref> The term ''Ghosi'' refers to a herder.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lr9pFQPwhXYC&pg=PA157 |title=Theory of Avatāra and Divinity of Chaitanya |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist |first=Janmajit |last=Roy |year=2002 |page=157 |isbn=978-8-12690-169-2}}</ref> or a temporary encampment of cowherds, which was the occupation of those people.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyyNIL7Ug2kC&pg=PA126 |title=Krishna-cult in Indian Art |publisher=M.D. Publications |first=Sunil Kumar |last=Bhattacharya |year=1996 |page=126 |isbn=978-8-17533-001-6}}</ref><br />
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==Colonial description==<br />
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[[File:Indischer Maler um 1755 002.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Krishna with Yasoda and Nandji, the claimed ancestor of Ghosis]]<br />
The largest subdivisions of Ahirs in Braj-Ahirwal area are the Ghosi, Kamariya, Phataks and Nandvanshis. However today they all recognise themselves to be Yaduvanshi or Krishnavanshi Yadavs.<ref name="research thesis">{{cite book|last1=Lucia|first1=Michelutti|title=Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav|date=2002|publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science,University of London|page=96|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2106/1/U613338.pdf|access-date=12 October 2016}}</ref>{{dubious|date=January 2019}}<br />
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In the [[Braj]]-[[Ahirwal]] region, the Ghosi and other subdivisions of Ahirs were gradually absorbed into the Nandvanshi category of landlords and into the [[Yaduvanshi]] subdivision as a consequence of British so-called "official" ethnographies and racial theories. The landlords liked the Nandvanshi title because they considered it to be prestigious.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2106/1/U613338.pdf |title=Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town |publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science University of London |work=PhD Thesis Social Anthropology |date=2002 |access-date=2015-05-27 |first=Lucia |last=Michelutti |pages=90–91, 95}}</ref>{{dubious|date=January 2019}}<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
In the Braj-Ahirwal area, the Ghosi are among the largest Ahir subdivisions, along with the Kamariyas, [[Gwalvanshi]]s and Nandvanshis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2106/1/U613338.pdf |title=Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town |publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science University of London |work=PhD Thesis Social Anthropology |date=2002 |access-date=2015-05-27 |first=Lucia |last=Michelutti |page=93}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Provinces (India)|first=Central|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TdDAQAAMAAJ&q=ghosi+ahir|title=Central Provinces District Gazetteers|date=1908|publisher=Printed at the Pioneer Press|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Ahir clans]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book |title=The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste, and Religion in India |first=Lucia |last=Michelutti |publisher=Routledge |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-41546-732-2}}<br />
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[[Category:Social groups of Bihar]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
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