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A suggested alliance of the Ahir, Jat, Gurjar and Rajput caste.
AJGAR is a suggested alliance of the
Ahir ,
Jat ,
Gurjar and
Rajput . It was first proposed by
Sir Chhotu Ram , a rural leader and politician in pre-independence
India as a form of peasant-alliance.
[1]
The theory was later used by
Chaudhary Charan Singh in the 1970s as a part of his Kisan-Politics
[2] to break the monopoly of
Indian National Congress in
Uttar Pradesh .
[3] He subscribed to the
Martial Race theory that
Ahirs ,
Jats and
Gurjars are of the same social and racial group, the
Kshatriya .
[4]
The backward castes are prosperous throughout the state of
Uttar Pradesh and constitute the mid-strata of the village social structure. At present, the
Panchayati raj , has decided that marriages between these castes would not be considered as inter caste marriage.
[5] It's being promoted as single entity called
Kshatriyas . AJGAR emerged to gain political power in the state.
[6]
[7]
In
Western Uttar Pradesh , the wealth and power of AJGAR alliance increased during the
Green Revolution period,
[3]
[8] but the AJGAR formula failed to gain widespread support.
[9] However, later in 1989, the leader
V. P. Singh used the AJGAR cluster successfully to conjoin the
Other Backward Classes and Rajputs.
[10] [
clarification needed ]
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Marriages among Ahir, Jaat, Gujjar and Rajput will not be "inter-caste"
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