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Talcher Autonomous College

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{{Infobox university
| name = Talcher Autonomous College
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| established = 1969
| type = [[Non Govt Aided]]
| undergrad = [[Bachelor of Science|Bsc]], [[BCom]], [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]
| administrative_staff = 115+
| students = 1504
| president = Tapan Satpathy (ADM Angul)
| principal = Dr. Raghunath Rath
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| city = [[Talcher]]
| state = [[Odisha]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Urban {{convert|31.945|acre|m2}}
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| affiliations =[[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] (UGC), [[National Assessment and Accreditation Council]] (NAAC), [[Utkal University]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.tac.ac.in}}
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'''Talcher Autonomous College''', [[Talcher]], is a degree college offering instruction in Arts, Science and Commerce.<ref name="Talcher Autonomous College, Talcher, Angul">{{cite web |url= http://www.rtiodisha.gov.in/pa/T1RILzM4LzU2OTAvMQ== |title=Talcher Autonomous College, Talcher, Angul |work=RTI |access-date=13 Jan 2018}}</ref>
it also offers Vocational Education in two trades and Elective subjects in [[Computer Science]] and [[Bio-Technology]].

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==History==
The college was founded as a Tutorial College in 1969, in a rented building overlooking the river Brahmani. It subsequently got approval and University affiliation for Intermediate in Arts (IA) from the session 1970-71, The [[IGNOU]] authorities has chosen '''Talcher Autonomous College''' as a Special study Center in the year 2005 considering the demand of the local people.

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==External links==
*{{Official website |http://www.talchercollege.org/ }}

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Yadav

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Yadav is a traditionally peasant-pastoral community of India and Nepal. The term "Yadav" is now commonly used as a surname by members of communities such as [[Ahir|Ahirs]], [[Golla (caste)|Golas]], and [[Gavli|Gavlis]]. At present people from this community are chiefly engaged in agriculture, military services, and also in cattle herding.

==Origins==

===In mythology===
The term ''Yadav'' (or sometimes ''[[Yadava]]'') has been interpreted to mean ''a descendant of Yadu'', who is a mythological king.<ref name=Rao1979p124>{{cite book |title=Social movements and social transformation: a study of two backward classes movements in India |first=M. S. A. |last=Rao |author-link=M. S. A. Rao |publisher=Macmillan |year=1979 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWEiAQAAMAAJ |page=124|isbn=9780836421330 }}</ref>

Using "very broad generalisations", Jayant Gadkari says that it is "almost certain" from analysis of the ''[[Puranas]]'' that [[Andhaka]], [[Vrishni]], [[Yadava#The Satvatas|Satvata]] and [[Abhira tribe|Abhira]] were collectively known as ''Yadavas'' and worshipped Krishna. Gadkari further notes of these ancient works that "It is beyond dispute that each of the ''Puranas'' consists of legends and myths ... but what is important is that, within that framework [a] certain value system is propounded".<ref>{{cite book |title=Society and religion: from Rugveda to Puranas |first=Jayant |last=Gadkari |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zst_7qaatp8C |pages=179, 183–184 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |location=Bombay |year=1996 |isbn=978-81-7154-743-2}}</ref>

Lucia Michelutti notes that {{quote|At the core of the Yadav community lies a specific folk theory of descent, according to which all Indian pastoral castes are said to descend from the Yadu dynasty (hence the label Yadav) to which Krishna (a cowherder, and supposedly a Kshatriya) belonged. ... [there is] a strong belief amongst them that all Yadavs belong to Krishna's line of descent, the Yadav subdivisions of today being the outcome of a fission of an original and undifferentiated group.<ref name=Michelutti2004p49>{{cite journal |title="We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians": Caste and modern politics in a north Indian town |first=Lucia |last=Michelutti|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology |date=February 2004 |volume=38 |issue=1–2 |page=49 |doi=10.1177/006996670403800103|s2cid=144951057 }}{{subscription required}}</ref>}}

Historians such as P. M. Chandorkar have used epigraphical and similar evidence to argue that Ahirs and Gavlis are representative of the ancient Yadavas and Abhiras mentioned in [[Sanskrit]] works.<ref>{{Cite book|first = Sumit | last = Guha |title=Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GSa5blriOYcC&pg=PA47|year = 2006| publisher = University of Cambridge|page=47|isbn=978-0-521-02870-7}}</ref>

===In practice===
[[File:Gujarati Ahir.jpg|thumb|300x300px|This is a picture clicked during an Ahir caste meeting in Gujarat.]]
There are several communities that coalesce to form the Yadavs. [[Christophe Jaffrelot]] has remarked that
{{quote|The term 'Yadav' covers many castes which initially had different names: [[Ahir]] in the Hindi belt, Punjab and Gujarat, [[Gavli]] in Maharashtra, [[Golla (caste)|Golla]] in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka etc. Their traditional common function, all over India, was that of herdsmen, cowherds and milksellers.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p187/>}}

However, Jaffrelot has also said that most of the modern Yadavs are cultivators, mainly engaged in tilling the land, and less than one third of the population are occupied in raising cattle or the milk business.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003>{{cite book |title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India |page=188 |first=Christophe |last=Jaffrelot |author-link=Christophe Jaffrelot|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85065-670-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkW94DtUMAC}}</ref>

[[M. S. A. Rao]] had earlier expressed the same opinion as Jaffrelot, and noted that the traditional association with cattle, together with the belief in descent from Yadu, defines the community.<ref name=Rao1979p124/> According to [[David G. Mandelbaum|David Mandelbaum]], the association of the Yadav (and their constituent castes, [[Ahir]] and [[Gwala (community)|Gwala]]) with cattle has impacted on their commonly viewed ritual status (varna) as [[Shudra]], although the community's members often claim the higher status of Kshatriya. The Shudra status is explained by the nomadic nature of herdsmen, which constrained the ability of other groups in the varna system to validate the adherence to practices of ritual purity; by their involvement in castration of the animals, which was considered to be a ritually polluting act; and because the sale of milk, as opposed to personal use thereof, was thought to represent economic gain from a sacrosanct product.<ref>{{cite book |title=Society in India |volume=2 |first=David Goodman |last=Mandelbaum |author-link=David Goodman Mandelbaum |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-520-01623-1 |pages=442–443 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igfd9YYCqf8C}}</ref>

According to Lucia Michelutti:
{{quote|... Yadavs constantly trace their caste predispositions and skills to descent, and in doing so they affirm their distinctiveness as a caste. For them, caste is not just appellation but quality of blood (Yalman 1969: 87, in Gupta 2000: 82). This view is not recent. The Ahirs (today Yadavs) had a lineage view of caste (Fox 1971; Unnithan-Kumar 1997) that was based on a strong ideological model of descent. This descent-based kinship structure was also linked to a specific Kshatriya and their religious tradition centred on Krishna mythology and pastoral warrior hero-god cults.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gupta|first1=Dipankar|last2=Michelutti|first2=Lucia|editor=Dipankar Gupta|title=Caste in Question: Identity or hierarchy?|volume=Contributions to Indian Sociology|year=2004|publisher=Sage Publications|location=New Delhi, California, London|isbn=0-7619-3324-7|pages=48/Lucia Michelutti|chapter=2. 'We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians': Caste and modern politics in a north Indian town}}</ref>}}

==Yadavs in modern India==
[[File:Veer ahir.jpg|thumb|Veer ahir ajit hai abhit hai]]

===Occupational background, location and social status===

The Yadavs mostly live in [[Northern India]], and particularly in [[Haryana]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Bihar]].<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p196/><ref name=Mandelbaum1970p442/> Traditionally, they were a non-elite<ref name="Luce2008">{{cite book|last=Luce|first=Edward|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMYeyhrgd_wC&pg=PT133|title=In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|year=2008|isbn=978-1-4000-7977-3|page=133|author-link=Edward Luce}} Quote: "The Yadavs are one of India's largest 'Other Backward Classes,' a government term that covers most of India's [[Shudra|Sudra]] castes. Yadavs are the traditional cowherd caste of North India and are relatively low down on the traditional pecking order, but not as low as the untouchable Mahars or Chamars."</ref><ref name="michelutti-2004">{{Citation|last=Michelutti|first=Lucia|title='We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians': Caste and modern politics in a north Indian town|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology|year=2004|volume=38|issue=1–2|pages=43–71|doi=10.1177/006996670403800103|s2cid=144951057}} 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."</ref> pastoral caste. Their traditional occupations changed over time and for many years Yadavs have been primarily involved in cultivation,<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p188/> although Michelutti has noted a "recurrent pattern" since the 1950s whereby economic advancement has progressed through involvement in cattle-related business to transportation and thence to construction. Employment with the army and the police have been other traditional occupations in northern India, and more recently government employment in that region has also become significant. She believes that [[positive discrimination]] measures and gains as a consequence of [[land reform]] legislation have been important factors in at least some areas.<ref>{{cite journal |title="We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians": Caste and modern politics in a north Indian town |first=Lucia |last=Michelutti|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology |date=February 2004 |volume=38 |issue=1–2 |pages=52–53 |doi=10.1177/006996670403800103|s2cid=144951057 }}{{subscription required}}</ref>

Lucia Michelutti notes that {{quote|Colonial ethnographers left a legacy of hundreds of pages of ethnographic and ethnological details which portray the Ahir/Yadavs as "Kshatriyas", "martial" and "wealthy", or as "Shudras", "cowherders", "milk sellers" and low in status terms. In short there has been no consensus on the nature of the Ahir caste/tribe.<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|last=Michelutti|first=Lucia|year=2002|access-date=13 September 2019|page=83}}</ref>}}

J. S. Alter notes that in North India the majority of the wrestlers are of the Yadav caste. He explains this as being due to their involvement in the milk business and dairy farms, which thus provides easy access to the milk and [[ghee]] deemed to be essential to a good diet.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Wrestling with (Body) Politics: Understanding 'Goonda' Political Styles in North India |first=Lucia |last=Michelutti |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8bfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 |page=55 |title= Power and Influence in India: Bosses, Lords and Captains: Exploring the Political in South Asia |editor1-first=Pamela |editor1-last=Price |editor2-first=Arild Engelsen |editor2-last=Ruud |publisher=Routledge |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-13619-799-4}}</ref>

Although the Yadavs have formed a fairly significant proportion of the population in various areas, including 11% of that of Bihar in 1931, their interest in pastoral activities was not traditionally matched by ownership of land and consequently they were not a "dominant caste". Their traditional position, which Jaffrelot describes as "low caste peasants", also militated against any dominant role. Their involvement in pastoralism accounts for a traditional view of Yadavs as being peaceful, while their particular association with cows has a special significance in Hinduism, as do their beliefs regarding Krishna.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p188>{{cite book |title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India |page=188 |first=Christophe |last=Jaffrelot |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85065-670-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkW94DtUMAC}}</ref> Against this image, [[Robert Vane Russell|Russell and Lal]], writing in 1916, called the Ahir subdivision uncouth, although it is unclear whether their comments were based entirely on proverbial stories, on observation or on both.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/tribescastesofce02russ |title=Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India |volume=2 |year=1916 |page=[https://archive.org/details/tribescastesofce02russ/page/37 37] |first1=R. V. |last1=Russell |first2=Raj Bahadur Hira |last2=Lal |publisher=Macmillan |location=London}}</ref> Tilak Gupta said that this view persisted in modern times in Bihar, where the Yadav were viewed in highly negative terms by other groups.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Yadav Ascendancy in Bihar Politics |first=Tilak D. |last=Gupta |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=27 |issue=26 |date=27 June 1992 |pages=1304–1306 |jstor=4398537}}{{subscription required}}</ref> However, Michelutti observed, these very same people acknowledge and coveted their political influence, connections and abilities.<ref name="Lucia">{{cite web |title=Wrestling with (body) politics: understanding 'goonda' political styles in North India|url=http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:C4SaepWFzv0J:scholar.google.com/+michelutti+yadav+goonda&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5|last=Michelutti|work= Quote:"I saw many high-caste people, who refer to Yadavs as goondas in a disapproving fashion using their 'services'. Their connections, political influence and abilities are thus practically acknowledged. By the end of the fieldwork the same non-Yadav informants who advise me of not going around with politicians asked me to use my 'Yadav contacts' to help them to get their telephone line sorted out, to get a taxi-licence or to speed up a court case."|access-date=27 October 2011}}</ref>

The Yadavs have, however, demonstrated a feature, driven by their more notable members, that shares a similarity with other Indian communities. Mandelbaum has noted that {{quote|As the families of a [[jāti]], in sufficient number, accrue a strong power base, and as their leading men become united enough to move together for higher status, they typically step up their efforts to improve their jāti customs. They try to abandon demeaning practices and to adopt purer and more prestigious ways. They usually want to drop the old name for a better one.<ref name=Mandelbaum1970p442>{{cite book |title=Society in India |volume=2 |first=David Goodman |last=Mandelbaum |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-520-01623-1 |page=442 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igfd9YYCqf8C}}</ref>}}

In Bihar, the political advancement of Yadavs didn't improve their relative marginalisation in other fields. The spread of education among the community remained less as compared to more advanced [[Other Backward Caste]]s like [[Kurmi|Awadhia Kurmi]], [[Koeri]] and [[Bania (caste)|Bania]]. The attachment of Yadavs with the pastoral activities has been responsible behind their lower position in caste hierarchy as compared to owner cultivator castes among the [[Other Backward Class|OBC]]s. In areas where the communal ownership of land prevailed, trespassing into the fields by Yadav cattle herders to feed the cattle remained the part of their daily struggle for survival. Since such communal lands were mostly appropriated by village landlords, the caste occupation of Yadavs brought them in conflict with latter, and such skirmishes gave a militant and aggressive edge to the community's character. This followed their portrayal as "uncultured brutes" in the elitist discourses, which largely mirrors extreme backwardness still prevalent in large section of this community. The attempt to move up in the social ladder also remained evident in the nature of community and in due course of time "thriftiness" was observed to be a phenomenon, where they tried to save and buy small plot of lands, to be classified as owner cultivators.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Tilak D.|last=Gupta.|title= "Yadav Ascendancy in Bihar Politics."|journal=Economic and Political Weekly| volume= 27|issue= 26|year=1992|pages=1304–06|jstor=4398537}}</ref>

===Sanskritisation===
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[[File:GauwliesCowherdsBerar1874.jpg|right|thumb|Two cowherds from the Gauwli caste (now a part of the Yadav group) in [[Amravati Division|Berar]] (now in [[Maharashtra]]) 1874]]
[[File:GauliMysoreBuffaloHerderLingayat1875.jpg|right|thumb|A buffalo herder from the [[Lingayat]] Gauli caste (now a part of the Yadav group) in Mysore state (now [[Karnataka]], 1875]]
By the end of the nineteenth century, some Yadavs had become successful cattle traders and others had been awarded government contracts to care for cattle.<ref name=Mandelbaum1970p443>{{cite book |title=Society in India |volume=2 |first=David Goodman |last=Mandelbaum |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-520-01623-1 |page=443 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igfd9YYCqf8C}}</ref> Jaffrelot believes that the religious connotations of their connections to the cow and Krishna were seized upon by those Yadavs seeking to further the process of Sanskritisation,<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p188/> and that it was [[Rao Bahadur Balbir Singh]], a descendant of the last [[Abhira dynasty]] to be formed in India, who spearheaded this. Singh established the ''[[Ahir Yadav Kshatriya Mahasabha]]'' (AYKM) in 1910, which at once asserted that its Ahir constituents were of Kshatriya ritual rank in the varna system, descended from [[Yadu (legendary king)|Yadu]] (as was Krishna), and really known as Yadavs. The organisation claimed support from the facts that various Raj ethnologists had earlier claimed a connection between the Ahir and the Abhira, and because their participation in recent events such as the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] had demonstrated that Ahirs were good fighters.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p189>{{cite book |title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India |page=189 |first=Christophe |last=Jaffrelot |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85065-670-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkW94DtUMAC |access-date=2011-08-16}}</ref>

The AYKM was a self-contained unit and did not try to forge links with similar bodies among other caste groups that claimed Kshatriya descent at that time. It had some success, notably in breaking down some of the very strict traditions of [[endogamy]] within the community, and it gained some additional momentum as people from rural areas gradually migrated away from their villages to urban centres such as Delhi. Ameliorating the effects of strict endogamy was seen as being conducive to causing the community as a whole to unite, rather than existing as smaller subdivisions within it.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p189/> Rao has said that the events of this period meant that "the term Yadava refers to both an ethnic category and an ideology".<ref name=Rao1979p123>{{cite book |title=Social movements and social transformation: a study of two backward classes movements in India |first=M. S. A. |last=Rao |publisher=Macmillan |year=1979 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWEiAQAAMAAJ |page=123|isbn=9780836421330 }}</ref>

Of particular significance in the movement for Sanskritisation of the community was the role of the [[Arya Samaj]], whose representatives had been involved with the family of Singh since the late 1890s and who had been able to establish branches in various locations.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p189/> Although this movement, founded by [[Swami Dayananda Saraswati]], favoured a caste hierarchy and also endogamy, its supporters believed that caste should be determined on merit rather than on heritage. They therefore encouraged Yadavs to adopt the [[sacred thread]] as a symbolic way to defy the traditional inherited caste system, and they also supported the creation of [[Cow protection movement|cow protection associations]] (''Goraksha Sabha'') as a means by which Yadavs and other non-Brahmans could affirm the extent of their commitment to Hinduism by observing the strictures relating to cow slaughter.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003pp191-193>{{cite book |title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India |pages=191–193 |first=Christophe |last=Jaffrelot |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85065-670-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkW94DtUMAC |access-date=2011-08-16}}</ref> In Bihar, where the [[Bhumihar]]s and [[Rajput]]s were the dominant groups, the wearing of the thread by Ahirs led to occasions of violence.<ref name=Mandelbaum1970p444>{{cite book |title=Society in India |volume=2 |first=David Goodman |last=Mandelbaum |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-520-01623-1 |page=444 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igfd9YYCqf8C}}</ref>

Jaffrelot has contrasted the motivations of Yadav Sanskritisation with that of the [[Nair]]s, another Indian community. He notes that [[Gyanendra Pandey (historian)|Gyanendra Pandey]], Rao and [[M. N. Srinivas]] all assert that Yadav Sanskritisation was not a process to imitate or raise the community to ritual parity with the higher ranks but rather to undermine the authority of those ranks. He contrasts this "subversion" theory with the Nair's motive of "emancipation", whereby Sanskritisation was "a means of reconciling low ritual status with growing socio-economic assertiveness and of taking the first steps towards an alternative, Dravidian identity". Using examples from Bihar, Jaffrelot demonstrates that there were some organised attempts among members of the Yadav community where the driving force was clearly secular and in that respect similar to the Nair's socio-economic movement. These were based on a desire to end oppression caused by, for example, having to perform ''[[Unfree labor|begari]]'' (forced labour) for upper castes and having to sell produce at prices below those prevailing in the open market to the [[zamindar]]s, as well as by promoting education of the Yadav community. This "aggressive Sanskritisation", which caused riots in the area, was emulated by some other of the lower caste groups.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003pp191-193/> In support of the argument that the movements bore similarity, Jaffrelot cites [[Hetukar Jha]], who says of the Bihar situation that "The real motive behind the attempts of the Yadavas, Kurmis and Koeris at Sanskritising themselves was to get rid of this socio-economic repression".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Lower Caste Peasants and Upper-Caste Zamindars in Bihar, 1921–1925: an analysis of sanskritisation and contradiction between the two groups |journal=Indian Economic and Social History Review |volume=14 |issue=4 |year=1977 |page=550 |first=Hetukar |last=Jha |doi=10.1177/001946467701400404|s2cid=143558861 }}</ref>

The process of Sanskritisation often included creating a history. The first such for the Yadavs was written in the late nineteenth century by [[Vithal Krishnaji Khedkar]], a schoolteacher who became private secretary to a Maharajah. In 1959, Khedekar's work was published by his son, [[Raghunath Vithal Khedkar]], who was a surgeon, under the title ''[[The Divine Heritage of the Yadavas]]''. There has been subsequent work to develop his ideas, notably by [[K. C. Yadav]] and [[J. N. Singh Yadav]].<ref name=Mandelbaum1970p442/><ref name=Jaffrelot2003pp194-196>{{cite book |title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India |pages=194–196 |first=Christophe |last=Jaffrelot |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85065-670-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkW94DtUMAC}}</ref>

Khedekar's history made the claim that Yadavs were descendants of the Abhira tribe and that the modern Yadavs were the same community referred to as dynasties in the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' and ''Puranas''.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003pp194-196 /> Describing the work of the Khedekars as "a well-edited and well-produced volume", Mandelbaum notes that the Yadavs {{quote|... have usually been held in considerably less glorious repute by their neighbors. While an occasional warrior of a pastoral jati did establish his own state and dynasty, cattlekeepers are ranked in many localities among the lower blocks of the Shudras ... [The book] postulates divine and noble ancestry for a good many jatis in several language regions covering hundreds and thousands of people who share little more than a traditional occupation and a conviction about their rightful prerogatives.<ref name=Mandelbaum1970p442/>}} In creating this history there is some support for an argument that Yadavs were looking to adopt an ethnic identity akin to the [[Dravidian people|Dravidian]] one that was central to the Sanskritisation of the Nairs and other in south India. However, Jaffrelot believes that such an argument would be overstated because the Yadav "redrawing of history" was much more narrow, being centred on themselves rather than on any wider shared ethnic base. They did acknowledge groups such as the [[Jat]]s and [[Maratha]]s as being similarly descended from Krishna but they did not particularly accommodate them in their adopted [[Aryan]] ethnic ideology, believing themselves to be superior to these other communities. Jaffrelot considers the history thus created to be one that is "largely mythical [and] enabled Yadav intellectuals to invent a golden age".<ref name=Jaffrelot2003pp194-196 />

Michelutti prefers the term "yadavisation" to that of "sanskritisation". She argues that the perceived common link to Krishna was used to campaign for the official recognition of the many and varied herding communities of India under the title of Yadav, rather than merely as a means to claim the rank of Kshatriya. Furthermore, that "... social leaders and politicians soon realised that their 'number' and the official proof of their demographic status were important political instruments on the basis of which they could claim a 'reasonable' share of state resources."<ref name=Michelutti2004p49/>

===All-India Yadav Mahasabha===

The [[All-India Yadav Mahasabha]] (AIYM) was founded at [[Allahabad]] in 1924 by a meeting of disparate local groups from Bihar, [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]] and what is now Uttar Pradesh.<ref name=Mandelbaum1970p443/><ref name=Jaffrelot2003pp194-196/> Although the AIYM was initially organised by V. K. Khedakar, it was Rao Balbir Singh who developed it and this coincided with a period – during the 1920s and 1930s – when similar Sanskritisation movements elsewhere in the country were on the wane. The program included campaigning in favour of teetotalism and vegetarianism, both of which were features of higher-ranking castes, as well as promoting self-education and promoting the adoption of the "Yadav" name.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p196/> It also sought to encourage the British Raj to recruit Yadavs as officers in the army and sought to modernise community practices such as reducing the financial burden dowries and increasing the acceptable age of marriage. Furthermore, the AIYM encouraged the more wealthy members of the community to donate to good causes, such as for the funding of scholarships, temples, educational institutions and intra-community communications.<ref name=Jaffrelot2003p196>{{cite book |title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India |page=196 |first=Christophe |last=Jaffrelot |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85065-670-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkW94DtUMAC |access-date=2011-08-16}}</ref><ref name=Mandelbaum1970p444/>

The Yadav belief in their superiority impacted on their campaigning. In 1930, the Yadavs of Bihar joined with the [[Kurmi]] and [[Koeri]] agriculturalists to enter local elections. They lost badly but in 1934 the three communities formed the [[Triveni Sangh]] political party, which allegedly had a million dues-paying members by 1936. However, the organisation was hobbled by competition from the Congress-backed ''Backward Class Federation'', which was formed around the same time, and by co-option of community leaders by the Congress party. The Triveni Sangh suffered badly in the 1937 elections, although it did win in some areas. Aside from an inability to counter the superior organisational ability of the higher castes who opposed it, the unwillingness of the Yadavs to renounce their belief that they were natural leaders and that the Kurmi were somehow inferior was a significant factor in the lack of success. Similar problems beset a later planned caste union, the ''Raghav Samaj'', with the Koeris.<ref>{{cite book |title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India |page=197 |first=Christophe |last=Jaffrelot |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. |location=London |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-85065-670-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkW94DtUMAC |access-date=2011-08-16}}</ref>

In the post-colonial period, according to Michelutti, it was the process of yadavisation and the concentration on two core aims – increasing the demographic coverage and campaigning for improved protection under the [[positive discrimination]] scheme for [[Backward class|Backward Classes]] – that has been a singular feature of the AIYM, although it continues its work in other areas such as promotion of vegetarianism and teetotalism. Their proposals have included measures designed to increase the number of Yadavs employed or selected by political and public organisations on the grounds of their numerical strength, including as judges, government ministers and regional governors. By 2003 the AIYM had expanded to cover seventeen states and Michelutti believed it to be the only organisation of its type that crossed both linguistic and cultural lines. It continues to update its literature, including websites, to further its belief that all claimed descendants of Krishna are Yadav. It has become a significant political force.<ref>{{cite journal |title="We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians": Caste and modern politics in a north Indian town |first=Lucia |last=Michelutti|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology |date=February 2004 |volume=38 |issue=1–2 |pages=50–51 |doi=10.1177/006996670403800103|s2cid=144951057 }}{{subscription required}}</ref>

The campaign demanding that the army of the Raj should recruit Yadavs as officers resurfaced in the 1960s. Well-reported bravery during fighting in the Himalayas in 1962, notably by the 13th Kumaon company of Ahirs, led to a campaign by the AIYM demanding the creation of a specific Yadav regiment.<ref name=Mandelbaum1970p444/>

===Post-Independence===
[[File:Hyderabad bull.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Sadar (festival)|Sadar festival]] of Yadavs in Hyderabad celebrated during Diwali]]
Mandelbaum has commented on how the community basks in the reflected glory of those members who achieve success, that "Yadav publications proudly cite not only their mythical progenitors and their historical Rajas, but also contemporaries who have become learned scholars, rich industrialists, and high civil servants." He notes that this trait can also be seen among other caste groups.<ref>{{cite book |title=Society in India |volume=2 |first=David Goodman |last=Mandelbaum |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-520-01623-1 |page=485 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igfd9YYCqf8C |access-date=2011-08-25}}</ref>

The [[Sadar (festival)|Sadar festival]] is celebrated annually by the Yadav community in [[Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh|Hyderabad]], following the day of [[Diwali]]. Community members parade, dancing around their best buffalo bulls, which have been colourfully decorated with flowers and paint.<ref>{{cite news|title=Traditional Sadar Festival Celebrated|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article872151.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=26 September 2012|location=Hyderabad|date=7 November 2010}}</ref>

==Classification==
The Yadavs are included in the [[Other Backward Class]]es (OBCs) category in the Indian states of [[Bihar]],<ref name=central-obclist-bihar>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/bihar.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OBCs FOR THE STATE OF BIHAR |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 104)</ref> [[Chhattisgarh]],<ref name=central-obclist-chgattisgarh>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/Chattisgarh.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES: CHHATISGARH |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 1)</ref> [[Delhi]],<ref name=central-obclist-delhi>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/delhi.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES: DELHI |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 3)</ref> [[Haryana]],<ref name=central-obclist-haryana>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/haryana.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES: HARYANA |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 29)</ref> [[Jharkhand]],<ref name=central-obclist-jharkhand>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/Jharkhand.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES: JHARKHAND |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 118)</ref> [[Karnataka]],<ref name=central-obclist-karnataka>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/karnataka.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES: KARNATAKA |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 58)</ref> [[Madhya Pradesh]],<ref name=central-obclist-madhyapradesh>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/madhyapradesh.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES: MADHYA PRADESH |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 1)</ref> [[Odisha]],<ref name=central-obclist-orissa>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/orrisa.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OBCs FOR THE STATE OF ORISSA |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 43)</ref> [[Rajasthan]],<ref name=central-obclist-rajasthan>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/rajasthan.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OBCs FOR THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 1)</ref> [[Uttar Pradesh]],<ref name=central-obclist-uttarpradesh>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/uttarpradesh.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OBCs FOR THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 1)</ref> and [[West Bengal]].<ref name=central-obclist-westbengal>{{Citation |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Pdf/westbengal.pdf |title=CENTRAL LIST OF OBCs FOR THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL |work=National Commission of Backward Classes |publisher=Government of India |access-date=28 October 2011}} (Serial Number 3)</ref> In 2001, the Social Justice Committee in Uttar Pradesh reported over-representation of some OBCs, particularly Yadavs, in public offices; it suggested creating sub categories within the OBC category.<ref name="jeff#1">{{cite book|last1=Jeffery|first1=Roger|last2=Jeffrey|first2=Craig|last3=Lerche|first3=Jens|title=Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh|year=2014|publisher=SAGE Publications India|isbn=9789351501800|page=43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r7aICwAAQBAJ&pg=PA132}}</ref> The outcome of this was that the Yadav/Ahir became the only group listed in Part A of a three-part OBC classification system.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Pai|editor-first=Sudha|first=Anil K. |last=Verma|chapter=Backward-Caste Politics in Uttar Pradesh: An Analysis of the Samajwadi Party|title=Political process in Uttar Pradesh: identity, economic reforms, and governance|year=2007|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-0797-5|page=160 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S46rbUL6GrMC&pg=PA160}}</ref>

==Yadavs in Nepal==
The [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Nepal)|Central Bureau of Statistics]] of Nepal classifies the Yadav as a subgroup within the broader social group of [[Madheshi people|Madheshi]] Other Caste.<ref> Population Monograph of Nepal, Volume II [https://nepal.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Population%20Monograph%20V02.pdf]</ref> At the time of the [[2011 Nepal census]], 1,054,458 people (4.0% of the population of Nepal) were Yadav. The frequency of Yadavs by province was as follows:
* [[Madhesh Province]] (14.8%)
* [[Lumbini Province]] (4.1%)
* [[Koshi Province]] (1.3%)
* [[Bagmati Province]] (0.2%)
* [[Gandaki Province]] (0.0%)
* [[Karnali Province]] (0.0%)
* [[Sudurpashchim Province]] (0.0%)

The frequency of [[Yadavs of Nepal]] was higher than national average (4.0%) in the following districts:<ref>[https://cbs.gov.np/wp-content/upLoads/2018/12/Volume05Part02.pdf 2011 Nepal Census, District Level Detail Report]</ref>
* [[Siraha District|Siraha]] (24.4%)
* [[Dhanusha District|Dhanusha]] (17.5%)
* [[Saptari District|Saptari]] (15.8%)
* [[Sarlahi District|Sarlahi]] (15.5%)
* [[Mahottari District|Mahottari]] (15.2%)
* [[Rautahat District|Rautahat]] (12.2%)
* [[Bara District|Bara]] (10.5%)
* [[Kapilvastu District|Kapilvastu]] (10.2%)
* [[Rupandehi District|Rupandehi]] (7.4%)
* [[Parsa District|Parsa]] (6.6%)
* [[Parasi District|Parasi]] (5.8%)
* [[Banke District|Banke]] (4.7%)
* [[Sunsari District|Sunsari]] (4.3%)

==See also==
{{commons category|Yadav people}}
* [[List of Yadavs]]
* [[Ahir clans]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

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List of Yadavs

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This is a list of notable members of the [[Yadav]] community.

== Academicians ==
* [[Raj Kumar Yadav (academic)|Raj Kumar Yadav]]
== Artisans ==

== Civil servants and bureaucrats ==
* [[Bhupendra Yadav]], IPS, DGP of Rajasthan
* [[Jagmohan Yadav]], IPS, Former DGP of Uttar Pradesh
* [[Manoj Yadava]], IPS, DGP of Haryana
* [[Navniet Sekera]], IPS, ADG Uttar Pradesh
* [[Neera Yadav]], IAS
* [[Pranjal Yadav]], IAS

== Film and television ==
* [[Baba Yadav]]
* [[Dinesh Lal Yadav]]
* [[Dwij Yadav]]
* [[Khesari Lal Yadav]]
* [[Leena Yadav]]
* [[Manisha Yadav]]
* [[Narsing Yadav]]
* [[Neha Yadav]]
* [[Parul Yadav]]
* [[Pragya Yadav]]
* [[Rajesh Yadav (cinematographer)|Rajesh Yadav]]
* [[Raghubir Yadav]]
* [[Rajkumar Yadav]]
* [[Rajpal Yadav]]
* [[Ravi Yadav]]
* [[Shrikant Yadav]]
* [[Shyam Yadav]]

== First in their fields ==
* [[Santosh Yadav]], first woman in the world to climb [[Mount Everest]] twice, and the first woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest from [[Kangshung Face]].
* [[Surekha Yadav]], India's first female train driver
* [[Bhakti Yadav]], The first female MBBS from Indore, India
* [[Ram Baran Yadav]], The first president of Nepal

== Indian politics ==
* [[Ajay Singh Yadav]], former Union Minister
* [[Ajesh Yadav]], [[Aam Aadmi Party|AAP]] member for [[Badli (Delhi Assembly constituency)|Badli]] in the [[Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi]]
* [[Akhilesh Yadav]], Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
* [[Akshay Yadav]], M.P. in the [[16th Lok Sabha]]
* [[Anand Sen Yadav]], BSP politician
* [[Anil Kumar Yadav]], a politician from Bihar
* [[Anil Kumar Poluboina|Anil Kumar Yadav]], Minister of Irrigation(Water Resources) [[Government of Andhra Pradesh]]
* [[Anita Yadav]], politician, Former Minister Haryana Congress
* [[Anjan Kumar Yadav]], former M.P. for [[Secunderabad]]
* [[Arun Subhashchandra Yadav]], former Union Minister
* [[Arvind Singh Yadav]], MLA, Chhibramau, SP
* [[Annapurna Devi Yadav]], Union Minister of State for Education
* [[Ashok Kumar Yadav]], [[Member of Parliament]] from [[Madhubani (Lok Sabha constituency)|Madhubani]]
* [[Babulal Gaur | Babulal Gaur Yadav]], 16th [[Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh]]([[BJP]])
* [[Badulgula Lingaiah Yadav]], Member of the Parliament and leader Telangana Rashtra Samithi party
* [[Balram Yadav]], Samajwadi Party leader, UP
* [[Balram Singh Yadav]], former Union Minister
* [[Bhupender Yadav]], Union Minister of Labour and Employment
* [[Bhagabat Behera|Bhagabat Behera Yadav]], former Cabinet Minister of [[Government of Odisha]]
* [[Chandrapal Singh Yadav]], MP, Jhansi, SP
* [[Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Yadav]], former Chief Minister of Delhi
* [[Chaudhary Harmohan Singh Yadav]], SP Politician, [[Shaurya Chakra]] awardee
* [[Daroga Prasad Rai]], 10th Chief Minister of Bihar
* [[Darshan Singh Yadav]], former [[Rajya Sabha]] MP of [[Uttar Pradesh]]
* [[Dinesh Chandra Yadav]], former Minister of [[Government of Bihar|Bihar]] and Member of [[Lok Sabha|Parliament]]
* [[Dinesh Kumar Singh|Dinesh Yadav]], former member of [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Deo Narayan Yadav]], 12th [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Devender Yadav]], Indian National Congress
* [[Devendra Prasad Yadav]], former RJD Leader
* [[Devendra Singh Yadav]], former M.P. for [[Etah (Lok Sabha Constituency)|Etah]]
* [[Dharmananda Behera|Dharmananda Behera Yadav]], former MLA of [[Choudwar-Cuttack]] (Odisha)
* [[Dharmendra Yadav]], M.P., Samajwadi Party
* [[Dimple Yadav]], M.P. for Kannauj
* [[D. P. Yadav]], leader of [[Rashtriya Parivartan Dal]]
* [[Girish Yadav]], State Minister, Uttar Pradesh, A BJP Leader
* [[Hitesh Kumar Bagartti|Hitesh Kumar Bagartti Yadav]], former Member of [[Odisha Legislative Assembly]](BJP)
* [[Hukmdev Narayan Yadav]], former Union Minister of State
* [[Hemchand Yadav]], Former Cabinet Minister of Chhattishgarh Government
* [[Jagadambi Prasad Yadav]], former Minister of State in PM Morarji Desai Ministry
* [[Jaswant Singh Yadav]], BJP, Rajasthan
* [[Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav]], former Union Minister of State for Water Resources
* [[Kailash Nath Singh Yadav]], [[Bahujan Samaj Party]], Uttar Pradesh
* [[Kanti Singh|Kanti Singh Yadav]], former Union Minister
* [[Lalita Yadav]], Minister of State of [[Madhya Pradesh Government]]
* [[Laloo Prasad Yadav]], former Union Cabinet Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Bihar
* [[Laxmi Narayan Yadav]], M.P., [[Sagar, Madhya Pradesh]]
* [[Madhusudan Yadav]], former [[Lok Sabha]] MP and Mayor of [[Rajnandgaon|Rajnandgaon Municipal Corporation]]
* [[Mahinder Yadav]], MLA, AAP
* [[Manoj Yadav]], former MLA of Bihar and MLA of [[Jharkhand]]
* [[Mandakini Behera|Mandakini Behera Yadav]], former MLA of [[Odisha]] [[Nayagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nayagarh]]
* [[Mitrasen Yadav]], Communist Party leader
* [[Mousadhi Bag|Mousadhi Bag Yadav]], member of [[Odisha Legislative Assembly]] from [[Dharmagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dharmagarh]]
* [[Mulayam Singh Yadav (Auraiya politician)]], former Member of [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council|Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (MLC)]] for 3 times(he is not the father of Akhilesh Yadav)
* [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]], former Union [[Defence Minister of India]] and Ex-[[Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh]]
* [[Nagendra Singh Munna Yadav]], M.L.A., Samajwadi Party, [[Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh]]
* [[Nand Kishore Yadav (SP)|Nand Kishore Yadav]], Member of the [[Parliament of India]] representing [[Uttar Pradesh]] in the [[Rajya Sabha]]
* [[Neera Yadav (politician)]], leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and the minister in government of [[Jharkhand]]
* [[Nityanand Rai| Nityanand Rai Yadav]], Minister of State for [[Home Affairs]]
* [[Om Prakash Yadav]] JDU, Bihar
* [[Pappu Yadav]], former RJD M.P
* [[Pradeep Yadav (Indian politician)|Pradeep Yadav]], 13th Lok Sabha MP and MLA of [[Jharkhand]] state
* [[Pramila Giri|Pramila Giri Yadav]], former Member of [[Odisha Legislative Assembly]] from Baisinga ([[Mayurbhanj]])
* [[Ramakant Yadav (politician)|Ramakant Yadav]], BJP
* [[Ramesh Prasad Yadav]], former Member of [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Rampal Yadav]], SP leader
* [[Ram Gopal Yadav]], Rajya Sabha member
* [[Ram Kripal Yadav]], former Union Minister of State
* [[Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav]], former member of [[Lok Sabha]] and Ex-MLA of Bihar
* [[Ram Naresh Yadav]], former Chief Minister of [[Uttar Pradesh]]
* [[Ranjan Prasad Yadav]], RJD politician, Bihar
* [[Rekha Yadav]], [[Bharatiya Janshakti Party]] [[Malhara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] in [[Chhatarpur district]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]
* [[Sadhu Yadav]], politician, Bihar
* [[Sharad Yadav]], leader of Janata Dal (U)
* [[Shivpal Singh Yadav]], former Cabinat Minister of [[Uttar Pradesh Government|Uttar Pradesh]]
* [[Shyamlal Yadav]], Leader of Congress (I), Former [[Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha]]
* [[Subhash Yadav]], former Deputy Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
* [[Subhash Prasad Yadav]], former [[Member of Parliament|Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)]] from [[Bihar]]
* [[Sudha Yadav]], BJP leader
* [[Sunil Kumar Singh Yadav]], [[Bahujan Samaj Party]], Uttar Pradesh
* [[Surendra Prasad Yadav]], former Industrial Minister of Bihar & Jharkhand and Ex-MLA of Bihar he also served as an MP of 12th [[Lok Sabha]]
* [[Talasani Srinivas Yadav]], Minister of State in [[Government of Telangana]](Telangana Rashtra Samithi)
* [[Tejashwi Yadav]], Ex-Deputy Chief Minister, Bihar State
* [[Tej Pratap Yadav]], Ex-Minister for Health, Bihar
* [[Tej Pratap Singh Yadav]], M.P. for [[Mainpuri]]
* [[Uma Kant Yadav]], [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Umlesh Yadav]], former MLA for [[Bisauli]] [[Uttar Pradesh]]
* [[Vijay Bahadur Yadav]], MLA, Gorakhpur Rural
* [[Yogendra Yadav]], Leader of [[Swaraj Abhiyan]]

== Literature ==
* [[Anand Yadav]], a Marathi-language writer
* [[B. D. Yadav]], historian
* [[J. N. Singh Yadav]], English- and [[Hindi]]-language writer
* [[Lalai Singh Yadav]], writer and playwright from [[Uttar Pradesh|UP]]
* [[Rajendra Yadav]], a pioneer of the Hindi literary movement known as Nayi Kahani.
* [[Ramashankar Yadav]], Hindi poet
* [[S. D. S. Yadava|S. D. S. Yadav]], writer of "Followers of Krishna: Yadavas of India"

== Military ==
* [[Yogendra Singh Yadav]]
* [[Kaushal Yadav]]
* [[Kulbhushan Yadav]]

== Nepali politics ==
* [[Upendra Yadav]], [[Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal]]
* [[Chitra Lekha Yadav]], minister
* [[Dinesh Chandra Yadav (Nepal)]] member of the Second Nepalese Constituent Assembly
* [[Radhe Chandra Yadav]], member of the Second Nepalese Constituent Assembly
* [[Ram Ayodhya Prasad Yadav]], member of the Second Nepalese Constituent Assembly
* [[Ram Baran Yadav]], President
* [[Renu Kumari Yadav]], Minister of Education. member of the [[Madhesi Janadhikar Forum]]
* [[Upendra Yadav]] President of [[Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal]]
*[[Matrika Prasad Yadav|Matrika Yadav]], [[Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies (Nepal)|Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies]], A [[Nepal Communist Party]] Leader

== Professionals ==
* [[Bhakti Yadav|Dr. Bhakti Yadav]], [[Padma Shri]] awardee gynaecologist
* [[Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav]], Leading [[Agriculturist]], Padma Shri Awardee
* [[Ramakant Yadav (neurologist)|Ramakant Yadav]] is a professor of Neurology.
* [[Raj Vir Singh Yadav]], Kidney transplant surgeon, [[Padma Shri]] Awardee, 1982
* [[Rahul Yadav]], Ex CEO, Housing.com and founder of Intelligent Interfaces for e-commerce
* [[Yogendra Yadav]], [[Psephology]]

== Science and technology ==
* [[Jhillu Singh Yadav]]
* [[Rajpal Singh Yadav]]

== Social workers ==
* [[Phoolbasan Bai Yadav]] Social Worker in [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Padma Shri]] Awardee, Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awardee

== Sports ==
* [[Abhishek Yadav (footballer)|Abhishek Yadav]], football
* [[Abhishek Yadav (table tennis)|Abhishek Yadav]], table-tennis
* [[Ajay Yadav]], cricket
* [[Akash Yadav]], cricket
* [[Amit Yadav|Amit Raj Kumar Yadav]], cricket
* [[Arjun Yadav]], cricket
* [[Ashwin Yadav]], cricket
* [[Avinash Yadav]], cricket
* [[Bani Yadav]], Car rallyist, India's fastest women car racer
* [[Chinki Yadav]], Indian sport shooter
* [[Dharmendra Singh Yadav]], boxing
* [[Hemulal Yadav]], cricket
* [[Jai Prakash Yadav (cricketer)|Jai Prakash Yadav]], cricket
* [[Jayant Yadav]], cricket
* [[Jyoti Yadav]], cricket
* [[Kapil Yadav]], cricket
* [[Kavita Yadav]], air-rifle Shooting
* [[Kuldeep Yadav]], cricket
* [[Lalit Yadav (Delhi cricketer)|Lalit Yadav]], [[Delhi]] cricketer
* [[Lalit Yadav (Vidarbha cricketer)|Lalit Yadav]], [[Vidarbha|Vidharbha]] cricketer
* [[Narsingh Pancham Yadav]], wrestling
* [[Poonam Yadav (cricketer)|Poonam Yadav]], cricket
* [[Punam Yadav]], weightlifting
* [[Puneet Yadav]], Cricket
* [[Radha Yadav]], Cricket
* [[Rahul Yadav (cricketer)]]
* [[Rahul Yadav Chittaboina]], Badminton
* [[Rakesh Kumar Yadav]], athletics
* [[Sanjay Yadav (cricketer)|Ram Singh Sanjay Yadav]], Cricket
* [[Ram Singh Yadav]], Marathon Runner
* [[Renuka Yadav]], hockey
* [[Rohit Yadav C.]], Badminton
* [[Sandeep Tulsi Yadav]], wrestling
* [[Santosh Yadav (cricketer)]], cricket
* [[Santosh Yadav]], mountaineering
* [[Satish Kumar (boxer)|Satish Kumar Yadav]], boxing
* [[Shivlal Yadav]], cricket
* [[Suryakumar Yadav]], cricket
* [[Swapnali Yadav]], swimming
* [[Tejashwi Yadav]], cricket
* [[Umesh Yadav]], cricket
* [[Vidhya Yadav]], cricket admintration
* [[Vijay Yadav (cricketer)|Vijay Yadav]], cricket
* [[Vikas Krishan Yadav]], boxing
* [[Vishal Yadav]], cricket

== Vice Chancellors ==
* [[G. D. Yadav]] vice chancellor of the [[Institute of Chemical Technology]], Mumbai (erstwhile UDCT) from 2009 until November 2019.
* [[R. S. Yadav|R.S. Yadav]] was Vice Chancellor of [[Baba Mastnath University|Baba Mast Nath University]], Rohtak, Haryana in 2018.
* [[Raja Ram Yadav]] former vice-chancellor of [[Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University]].
* [[Ramesh Kumar Yadava]] is Vice Chancellor of [[Baba Mastnath University|Baba Mast Nath University]], Rohtak, Haryana since 28 June 2021.
* [[Sumer Singh Yadav]] Vice-Chancellor of [[Jagan Nath University, NCR]].
* [[Sushma Yadav]] Vice-Chancellor of [[Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya]], Sonepat.

== See also ==
* {{intitle|Yadav}}

== References ==
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