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From '''The Tribes And Castes Of The Central Provinces Of India '''

By R. V. Russell

Of The Indian Civil Service

Superintendent Of Ethnography, Central Provinces

Assisted By
Rai Bahadur Hira Lal,
Extra Assistant Commissioner

Macmillan And Co., Limited, London, 1916.

''' NOTE 1: The 'Central Provinces' have since been renamed Madhya Pradesh. '''

NOTE 2: While reading please keep in mind that all articles in this series have been scanned from a book. During scanning some errors are bound to occur. Some letters get garbled. Footnotes get inserted into the main text of the article, interrupting the flow. Readers who spot errors might like to correct them, and shift footnotes gone astray to their rightful place.

=Rajput: Yadu, Yadava, Yadu-Bhatti Jadon=

The
Yadus are a well-known historical clan. Colonel Tod says
that the Yadu was the most illustrious of all the tribes of
Ind, and became the patronymic of the descendants of Buddha,
progenitor of the lunar (Indu) race. It is not clear, even
according to legendary tradition, what, if any, connection the
Yadus had with Buddha, but Krishna is held to have been
a prince of this tribe and founded Dwarka in Gujarat with
them, in which locality he is afterwards supposed to have
been killed.

Colonel Tod states that the Yadu after the
death of Krishna, and their expulsion from Dwarka and
Delhi, the last stronghold of their power, retired by Multan
across the Indus, founded Ghazni in Afghanistan, and peopled
these countries even to Samarcand. Again driven back on
the Indus they obtained possession of the Punjab and founded
Salbhanpur. Thence expelled they retired across the Sutlej
and Gara into the Indian deserts, where they foundedTannote,
Derawal and Jaisalmer, the last in A.D. 11 57.

It has been
suggested in the main article on Rajput that the Y^adus
might have been the Sakas, who invaded India in the second
century A.D. This, is only a speculation. At a later date
a Yadava kingdom existed in the Deccan, with its capital
at Deogiri or Daulatabad and its territory lying between
that place and Nasik.^ Mr. Smith states that these Yadava
kings were descendants of feudatory nobles of the Chalukya
kingdom, which embraced parts of western India and also
Gujarat. The Yadu clan can scarcely, however, be a more
recent one than the Chalukya, as in that case it would not
probably have been credited with having had Krishna as its
member.

The Yadava dynasty only lasted from A.D. 11 50
to 13 I 8, when the last prince of the line, Harapala, stirred
up a revolt against the Muhammadans to whom the king, his
father-in-law, had submitted, and being defeated, was flayed
alive and decapitated. It is noticeable that the Yadu-Bhatti
Rajputs of Jaisalmer claim descent from Salivahana, who
founded the Saka era in A.D. 78, and it is believed that this
era belonged to the Saka dynasty of Gujarat, where, according
^ Seealsoarticlejadum for a separate ^ Early History of India, 3rd ediaccount
of the local caste in the Central tion, p. 434.
Provinces.

to the tradition given above, the Yadus also settled. This
point IS not important, but so far as it goes would favour
the identification of the Sakas with the Yadavas.
The Bhatti branch of the Yadus claim descent from
Bhati, the grandson of Salivahana. They have no legend
of having come from Gujarat, but they had the title of Rawal,
which is used in Gujarat, and also by the Sesodia clan who
came from there.

The Bhattis are said to have arrived in
Jaisalmer about the middle of the eighth century, Jaisalmer
city being founded much later in A.D. 1 1 83. Jaisalmer State,
the third in Rajputana, has an area of 16,000 square miles,
most of which is desert, and a population of about 100,000
persons. The chief has the title of Maharawal and receives
a salute of fifteen guns.

The Jareja Rajputs of Sind and
Cutch are another branch of the Yadus who have largely
intermarried with Muhammadans. They now claim descent
from Jamshid, the Persian hero, and on this account, Colonel
Tod states, the title of their rulers is Jam. They were
formerly much addicted to female infanticide. The name
Yadu has in other parts of India been corrupted into Jadon,
and the class of Jadon Rajpiats is fairly numerous in the
United Provinces, and in some places is said to have become
a caste, its members marrying among themselves. This is
also the case in the Central Provinces, where they are known
as Jadum, and have been treated under that name in a
separate article. The small State of Karauli in Rajputana is
held by a Jadon chief.

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