Gavli

The name Gauli may have been derived from a Sanskrit word meaning cow.{{Cite book |last=Ghurye |first=Govind Sadashiv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkjsvf6_vsC&newbks=0&hl=en |title=Caste and Race in India |date=1969 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7154-205-5 |pages=32 |language=en}}

Some authorities have suggested that Ahirs (today Yadavs) migrated to Maharashtra from Punjab and Sindh in early historic times. other researchers have hypothesized that these people have inhabited Maharashtra for the last 5,000 to 10,000 years.{{Cite book |last=Pearl |first=Raymond |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lgu0AAAAIAAJ |title=Human Biology |date=1993 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |pages=306 |language=en}}

Gavli are distributed all over Maharashtra. Although Reginald Edward has classified Gawlis as sub-caste of many different castes Ahir Gawli (sub-caste of famous Yadav caste of North India) whereas Hanbar Gawli, Singaji Gawli and Lingayat Gawli are different from Yadav-Ahir Gawli.{{sfnp|Rao|1979|p=129}}{{sfnp|Enthoven|1990|p=368}}{{sfnp|Feldhaus|1989|p=101}} Along with Maratha and Kunbis, Ahir Gawlis are considered one of the allied castes of Maratha caste and have been included in the Maratha Regiment in the past.{{cite journal |last1=Constable |first1=Philip |year=2001 |title=The Marginalization of a Dalit Martial Race in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Western India. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2659700 |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=439–478 |doi=10.2307/2659700 |jstor=2659700 |pmid=18268829 |access-date=2020-11-28 |s2cid=40219522}}{{sfnp|Jaffrelot|2003|p=163}}

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The Seuna Yadava dynasty, which ruled present-day Maharashtra and north Karnataka, arose out of the valorous deeds of Dridhaprahara, founder of the dynasty, who protected cattle. According to the traditional sources, Devagiri, the capital of Seuna Yadavas, was founded by a king who was a Golla/Gavli.{{sfnp|Feldhaus|1989|p=101}}{{sfnp|Wink|2001|p=231}}{{Cite book|last1=Müller|first1=Friedrich Max|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I1c8AAAAMAAJ&q=devgiri|title=German Scholars on India: Contributions to Indian Studies|last2=Kultur-Referat|first2=Germany (West) Botschaft India|date=1976|publisher=Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office|language=en}} The idea that the Seunas were a Gavli dynasty survives to this day in folk traditions of the Nashik-Khandesh area, where they are traditionally called "Gavli Kings".{{sfnp|Dhere|2011|p=237,246,247}}{{sfnp|Dhavalikar |2014|p=274}} During the reign of Seuna Yadavas and their rival Hoysala Yadavas, the temple of Vitthal at Pandharpur, under their purview, grew from a small pastoral deity site to a major temple complex.{{sfnp|Novetzke|2016|p=93}}

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