ahir caste by f a rose

 ahir caste is described by F A Rose 

link of the book

https://www.jatland.com/home/A_glossary_of_the_Tribes_and_Castes_of_the_Punjab_and_North-West_Frontier_Province_By_H.A._Rose_Vol_II/A

comparison  of ahir jats and gujjars


page nu 6 of the book see below

Ahir women dress differently to those of the Jat tribes, wearing red and yellow striped gowns, with a shawl of red muslin. But in Jind they are said to wear a gown (lengha) of blue cloth.

The Ahirs were probably by origin a pastoral caste, but in the Punjab they are now almost exclusively agricultural, and stand in quite the first rank as husbandmen, being as good as the Kamboh and somewhat superior to the Jat. They are of the same social standing as the Jat and Gujar, who will eat and smoke with them ; but they have not been, at any rate within recent times, the dominant race in any considerable tract. Perhaps their nearest approach to such a position was in the State of Rampur near Rewari, whose last chief, Rao Tula Ram, mutinied in 1857 and lost his state. His family still holds a jagir and its members are addressed as Rao, a title which is indeed grateful to every Ahir.

They are industrious, patient, and orderly ; and though they are ill spoken of in the proverbs of the country side, yet that is probably only because the Jat is jealous of them as being even better cultivators than himself. Thus they say in Rohtak : " Kosli (the head

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page  7 of the book describe that brahman do marriage of ahirs 


They eat kachchi and pakki with all Brahmans and Vaisyas, but the latter do not eat kachchi from them. They will eat kachchi with Rajputs, Jats, Hindu Gujars, Rors, Sunars and Tarkhans, while the latter eat also with the former. They do not eat flesh3.

In and around Delhi city the Ahir is also known as Ghosi and claims descent from Nandji, adopted father of Krishna (Kanhyaii). Anciently called Gwalas the Ahirs were called Ghosi after their conversion to Islam4, but any cowman or milkseller is also called ghosi.

The principal Ahir or Ghosi gots are :—

  • Mukhia5 which ranks highest of all the gots.

Tho Hindu Ghosi customs resemble those of tho Hindu Rajputs. A Gaur Brahman officiates at the phera rite in marriage. The Ghosi have a system of punches and hereditary chaudhris. If one of the latter's line fail, his widow may adopt a son to succeed him, or, failing such adoption, the panch elects a fit person.

A very full description of the Ahirs will be found in Elliott's Races of the North-West Provinces, and also in Sherring, I, 332 ff.


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