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'''Shiv Dayal Singh Yadava''' (born 3 March 1927, [[Sadat Nagar]], Haryana<ref name="Yadava2006">{{cite book|author=S. D. S. Yadava|title=Followers of Krishna: Yadavas of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p69GMA226bgC&pg=PA188|accessdate=18 March 2012|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Lancer Publishers|isbn=978-81-7062-216-1|pages=188–}}</ref>) is an Indian army officer, retired in 1983<ref>{{cite book|author=Man Mohan Sharma|title=I shall not volunteer: inroads of corruption in the Indian Army|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PCbfAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=18 March 2012|date=1992*|publisher=Trishul Publications|isbn=978-81-85384-06-1}} - ''But Maj Gen SDS Yadava would have none of that. He stood firm like a rock between the higher Army Authority and his subordinates. Results? AS Vaidya did not invite Yadava for a Farewell Party when Yadava retired in Mar 83!''</ref> as a Major General, and author of the 2006 work ''Followers of Krishna: Yadavas of India''.<br />
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Born to Captain Puran Singh (SB, OBI), Yadava studied at King Georges School in Ajmer before joining the Army in 1947.<ref name="Yadava2006"/> During his Army career, Yadava served a period in the [[3rd Gorkha Rifles]]. Yadava was also wounded in the [[Battle of Dhalai]] while serving as Brigade Commander, where it took two days to evacuate him from the battlefield.<ref name="Amrish2003">{{cite book|author=Sahgal Amrish|title=Third and Ninth Gorkhas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9B5b-NGDhgC&pg=PA44|accessdate=18 March 2012|year=2003|publisher=Lancer Publishers|isbn=978-81-7062-290-1|pages=44–}}</ref> Later, in the 1980s while serving as Commander 101 Area in Shillong, Yadava initiated a program to use [[Liquified Petroleum Gas]] as a cooking fuel for his command, in order to avoid both the expense and deforestation resulting from the use of firewood for cooking.<ref name="Verma2008">{{cite book|author=Bharat Verma|title=Indian Defence Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyDtA-XdvcwC&pg=PA82|accessdate=18 March 2012|date=July 2008|publisher=Lancer Publishers|pages=82–|id=GGKEY:CY2TN9YFFJ8}}</ref><br />
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He has written a book titled ''Followers of Krishna: Yadavas of India''.<ref name="Yadava2006"/><br />
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