All-India Yadav Mahasabha
{{Short description|Caste-based organisation in India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox organisation
| name = All India अहीर Mahasabha
| image = Poornima jpg.jpg
| caption = AIYM Convection Meeting in Cuttuck
| formation = {{Start date and age|1924|04|17|df=yes|p=yes|br=yes}}
| key_people = Uday Pratap Singh (President)
Satya Prakash Singh Yadav
| headquarters = Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
| affiliations =
| website = {{URL|https://www.yadavsmovement.in}}
}}
The All India aheer Mahasabha is a caste-based community organisation established on 17 April 1924 to serve a broad body of Indian social groups collectively known as the Yadav caste.{{cite web|title=All India Yadav Mahasabha|url=https://www.yadavsmovement.in/}}{{cite web|url=http://yadunewsnation.in/heritage/12350/?fbclid=IwAR0mfdqpXBe_NCJg1-kOWwfIB3uXaNxkKl14g7V8J5kTUhKfyS4aK9p8o1c|title= 98th foundation day in Cuttack|accessdate=17 April 2022}}
The educated elite among the Yadavs instigated the formation of the All-India Yadav Mahasabha (AIYM) in 1924 in Allahabad, British India. It immediately engaged itself in two issues, appealing to its members in all regions to add Yadav to their names and at the same time launching a major programme to effect social reform.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}[http://www.cscsarchive.org/MediaArchive/audience.nsf/(docid)/0879F8EFAD3A0BE3652569410032A35C]{{dead link|date=July 2010}}
In the mid-20th century, the AIYM pressed the Government of India to form a Yadav regiment in the Indian Army,{{cite web|title=देश के सबसे साहसिक युद्ध रेजांग ला के शहीदों की याद में बने अहीर रेजिमेंट|date=7 April 2019|url=https://hindi.theprint.in/opinion/ahir-regiment-would-be-the-memory-of-the-rezang-la-martyrs-which-announced-by-akhilesh/54495/}}{{cite web|title=Indian Army - भारतीय सेना में अहीर रेजिमेंट गठन की उठी मांग|date=25 January 2021|url=https://www.patrika.com/bagru-1/demand-for-formation-of-ahir-regiment-6650921/}} following the performance of some caste members in the Sino-Indian War at Rezang La in Jammu and Kashmir on 18 November 1962.{{cite book |title=Society in India |volume=2 |first=David Goodman |last=Mandelbaum |authorlink=David Goodman 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}}{{cite web|url=https://www.jagran.com/haryana/mewat-campaign-to-make-ahir-regiment-will-start-from-rejangla-shaurya-diwas-22044704.html|title=अहीर रेजिमेंट के लिए रेजांगला शौर्य दिवस से चलेगी मुहिम|accessdate=22 September 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/HAR-OTH-MAT-latest-ateli-news-020503-2880485-NOR.html/|title=अहीर रेजिमेंट हमारा हक है, हम लेकर रहेंगे : नवीन|accessdate=10 September 2016}}
See also
- {{slink|Yadav|All-India Yadav Mahasabha}}
- Sankritisation
- The Divine Heritage of the Yadavas
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|last=Rao|first=M. S. A.|author-link1=M. S. A. Rao|year=1979|title= Social movements and social transformation: a study of two backward classes movements in India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZAiAAAAMAAJ |location=Delhi |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780333902554}} [https://archive.org/details/socialmovementss0000raom Alt URL]
External links
- {{official website|http://yadavsmovement.in/}}
Category:Indian caste movements