22-1065: Ahearn or Ahearne is a surname. It descends from Echthighern mac Cennétig . Notable people with the surname include: Blake Ahearn (born 1984), American basketball player Bunny Ahearne (1900–1985), British ice hockey promoter Joe Ahearne , British television director Michael Ahearne (born 1966), academic and author Mike Ahearn (1878–1948), American college football coach Rick Ahearn (born 1949), American political consultant, longtime Ronald Reagan aide T. Franklin Ahearn (1886–1962), Canadian hockey club owner and politician Theresa Ahearn (1951–2000), Irish politician Thomas Ahearn (1855–1938), Canadian inventor and businessman Thomas Ahearn (Australian politician) (born 1929) Australian politician and patent attorney William Ahearn (1858–1919), American baseball player See also [ edit ] Ahearne Cup Ahearn Field House Ahern Hearn (disambiguation) 3192 A'Hearn ,
44-811: A Hindi dialect which is different from one used normally. Ahirs usually speak language of the region in which they live. Some languages/dialects named after Ahirs are Ahirani, also known as Khandeshi , spoken in Khandesh region of Maharashtra, Ahirwati spoken in Ahirwal region of Haryana and Rajasthan. The Malwi spoken is Malwa region of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh is also known as Ahiri. These dialects are named after Ahirs but not necessarily only spoken by Ahirs living in those areas or all Ahirs in those regions speak these dialects. The Ahirs have three major classifications Yaduvanshi, Nandavanshi and Goallavanshi. Yaduvanshi claim descent from Yadu, Nandavansh claim descent from Nanda,
66-598: A minor planet [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Ahearn . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahearn&oldid=1144791493 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of Irish origin Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from April 2022 Articles with short description Short description
88-564: A race rather than a tribe. Epigraphical and historical evidence exists for equating the Ahirs with the ancient Yadava tribe. Whether they were a race or a tribe, nomadic in tendency or displaced or part of a conquering wave, with origins in Indo-Scythia or Central Asia, Aryan or Dravidian – there is no academic consensus, and much in the differences of opinion relate to fundamental aspects of historiography, such as controversies regarding dating
110-695: Is a reliance on interpretation of linguistic and factual analysis of old texts that are known to be unreliable and ambiguous. Some scholars consider the Abhira to be a Proto-Dravidian tribe who migrated to India and point to the Puranas as evidence. Other scholars say that the Abhira are recorded as being in India in the 1st-century CE work, the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea . The Abhira coommunity can also be considered to be
132-467: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Echthighern mac Cenn%C3%A9tig Echthighern mac Cennétig , also spelled Echthigern , (died 950) was a son of Cennétig mac Lorcáin (king of Thomond) and brother of Mathgamain ( King of Munster ) and Brian Boru ( High King of Ireland ) of the Dál gCais dynasty, in early medieval Ireland . The historian Geoffrey Keating states that during
154-552: Is the subject of various theories based mostly on interpretations of old texts such as the Mahabharata and the writings of Ptolemy . In Maharashtra and Gujarat , a Brahmin community uses the Abhira name which distinguishes them from tribal Abhira. Theories regarding the origins of the ancient Abhira – the putative ancestors of the Ahirs – are varied for the same reasons as are the theories regarding their location; that is, there
176-619: The Sanskrit word: abhira ) is a community of traditionally non-elite pastoralists in India, most members of which identify as being of the Indian Yadav community because they consider the two terms to be synonymous. The Ahirs are variously described as a caste , a clan , a race, and/or a tribe . The traditional occupations of Ahirs are cattle-herding and agriculture. Since late 19th century to early 20th century, Ahirs have adopted Yadav word for their community and have claimed descent from
198-455: The 1920s, which was at that time synonymous with being a " martial race ". This was a designation created by administrators that classified each ethnic group as either "martial" or "non-martial": a "martial race" was typically considered brave and well built for fighting, whilst the remainder were those whom the British believed to be unfit for battle because of their sedentary lifestyles. However,
220-505: The 1962 Sino-Indian War that saw the last stand of Charlie company, consisting of 114 Ahirs of 13 Kumaon, and in the 1965 India-Pakistan War . It was from the 1920s that some Ahirs began to adopt the name of Yadav and created the Yadav Mahasabha , founded by ideologues such as Rajit Singh. Several caste histories and periodicals to trace a Kshatriya origin were written at the time, notably by Mannanlal Abhimanyu. These were part of
242-769: The Ahirs defended their claims to a higher social status. At the same time Ahir/Yadav intelligentsia also emphasized the socio-economic backwardness faced by their community and in 1927, a petition was sent to the Simon Commission describing how the Ahirs suffers from the same social disabilities and discrimination as the Chamars . Despite explicitly expressing their commitment against untouchability, it has been observed that these movements by Yadav caste associations have not been egalitarian enough to include communities who are under Scheduled Castes and have claimed connection with Krishna. The Ahirs in certain region of UP had been one of
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#1732855047766264-543: The descendants of indentured servants who arrived between the 19th and 20th centuries from the former pre-partitioned sub-continent of India during the time of the British Raj. Ahir is believed to be a derivation of the Sanskrit word, "abhira", and the present term in the Bengali and Marathi languages is abhir . Ahirs are believed to be a tribe descended from the ancient Abhira community , whose precise location in India
286-523: The jostling among various castes for socio-economic status and ritual under the Raj and they invoked support for a zealous, martial Hindu ethos. Arya Samaj, a Hindu reformist organization also played an important role in ritual purification of Ahir/Yadavs and many low castes in order to incorporate them into Vedic Hinduism. In U.P, it was through shastrarth debates and with the help of reform movements like Arya Samaj and Vaishnava Ramanandi order in public debates that
308-458: The marital race was chosen from people of mercenary spirit (a soldier who fights for any group or country that will pay him/her), as these groups lacked nationalism as a trait. Ahirs had been recruited into the army from 1898. In that year, the British raised four Ahir companies, two of which were in the 95th Russell's Infantry . In post-independence India, some Ahir units have been involved in celebrated military actions, such as at Rezang La in
330-584: The martial races were also considered politically subservient, intellectually inferior, lacking the initiative or leadership qualities to command large military formations. The British had a policy of recruiting the martial Indians from those who has less access to education as they were easier to control. According to modern historian Jeffrey Greenhunt on military history, "The Martial Race theory had an elegant symmetry. Indians who were intelligent and educated were defined as cowards, while those defined as brave were uneducated and backward". According to Amiya Samanta,
352-510: The more militant Hindu groups during pre-independent India. In one of the instances before independence, Hindu shudra caste groups such as the Ahirs actively participated in a counter-reactionary communal conflict orchestrated by Arya Samaj. Some writers are also of the opinion that many low-castes (including Ahirs) took to cow protection for asserting higher status since cow already had symbolic importance in Hinduism. This view of cow protection
374-563: The mythological king Yadu . This is a part of a movement of social and political resurgence ( sanskritisation ) under the influence of Arya Samaj. Ahirs are found throughout India but are particularly concentrated in the northern area. Apart from India, Ahirs have significant population in Nepal , Mauritius , Fiji , South Africa and the Caribbean especially Guyana , Trinidad and Tobago , and Suriname . In Mauritius and Caribbean they are mostly
396-403: The region is therefore known as Ahirwal or the abode of Ahirs. Ahirani dialect continues to be spoken today in the region and is widespread across Jalgaon , Dhule and Nashik . It is an admixture of Marathi , Gujarati , Hindi , ancient Magadhi , Saurashtri , Sauraseni , Lati, Maharashtri , Prakrit and Paishachi . Ahir culture is rooted in pastoralism and closely associated to
418-582: The twelve-year period that Mathgamain held the sovereignty of Munster, "Echthighearn, son of Cinneide, was chief of Thomond." Donnchuan mac Cenniedi and his brother Echthigern were slain in the year 950 when Congalach Cnogba , King of Ireland , invaded the province of Munster . Echthigern was the progenitor of Irish families Anglicized Ahearn , Ahern and O'Hearn with other spelling variations, Aheer of sindhu valley (india). in addition to Mac Craith ( McGrath , etc.), Mac Gonigle ( Gunnell ), and O'Quirk . Ahir Ahir or Aheer (derived from
440-533: The worship of Krishna and Shiva. The Ahirs have three major classifications Yaduvanshi, Nandavanshi and Goallavanshi. Yaduvanshi claim descent from Yadu, Nandavansh claim descent from Nanda, the foster father of Krishna, and Goallavanshi claim descent from gopi and gopas of Krishna's childhood. In 1992, Noor Mohammad noted that most Ahirs in Uttar Pradesh were vegetarian, with some exceptions who were engaged in fishing and raising poultry. Ahirs of Benares speak
462-542: The writing of the Mahabharata and acceptance or otherwise of the Indo-Aryan migration (which is universally accepted in mainstream scholarship). Similarly, there is no certainty regarding the occupational status of the Abhira, with ancient texts sometimes referring to them as pastoral and cowherders but at other times as robber tribes. The British rulers of India classified the Ahirs of Punjab as an "agricultural tribe" in
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#1732855047766484-616: Was different from the UP's urban elites. Ahirs in India are known by numerous other names, including Gauli and Ghosi or Gop in North India . In Gujarat and South India as Ayar, Golla and Konar. Some in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh are known as Dauwa. The Ahirs have more than 20 sub-castes. They have a significant population in the region around Behror , Alwar , Rewari , Narnaul , Mahendragarh , Gurgaon and Jhajjar –
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