Kalwar (caste)

History of Kalwar Community

Kalwar is from the Haihaya dynasty, Haihay Vanshi was a Kshatriya, there is evidence in Harivansh Purana that the Kalwar dynasty originated in the Chandra Vanshi Kshatriya clan of India. In the same dynasty, there is also a legend about Sahastrabahu, who was a brave warrior like Kartavirya, Sahastrabahu, that Yaduvansh is prevalent with King Yadu from these, in which Bhagwan Shri Krishna and Balarama later took birth. Kalvar is the child of this Chandravanshi.(The patriarch of Kalwar society is Lord Balarama and the patriarch of the Yadav community is Lord Krishna.)

Kalvar and caste system .................. In India, caste system has been going on since ages, the varna and system of society has been scattered among castes and sub-castes today, it is being scattered day by day, see India as a whole, where there are different communities and varna system. But our Kalwar community has been divided into different categories are Kapoor, Khanna, Malhotra, Jaiswals, Mehra, Suri, Goyal ,Bhatia, Kohli, Khurana, Arora, Agarwal, Walia, Shivhare, Shaundrik, Saha, Gupta, Kalal, Karal, Karnaval, Somvanshi, Suryavanshi, Jaisar, Vyahut, Chaudhary, Prasad, Bhagat.

Kalwar Haihay Dynasty Chandravanshi's Genealogy .................. According to Harivansh Purana, Maharishi Vaishampayan told King Bharat that the ancestry of his ancestors said that King Yayati had a bright son "Yadu" Yadu had five sons. Payod 3. Crosta 4. Nil and 5. Anjik were named. The first of these three supreme religious sons of Sahastrad 1. "Haihay" 2. Haiyes and 3. Venuhay. (From Haihay--Kalwar Vansh and From Haiyes--Yadav vansh).Haihay's son Dharma Nathra is his son Kartha and Sahaj of Kart is Atmaj. Who created a city named Sahanjani in his name, Sahanj's son and grandson of "Haihay" was King Mahishman who settled the entire Mahishmati name (she is still waving the Dharmadhvaja and is famous in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh as Maheshwar. Maheshwar city is located on the banks of Maa Narmada in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh.)Mahishman's son is Pratapi Bhadrashrenya who was the ruler of Varanasi, the famous son of Bhadrashrenya was Durdam. Durdam's sons became Mahabali Kanaka and four famous sons of Kanaka 1. Kritauj1. Gratitude 3. Kritavarma ४. There were critics. Grateful son Arjun

How Saastrabahu got the name from Kartavirya Arjun..................

Sahastrabahu's original name was Kartavirya Arjuna. He was a great king and a brave king. He pleased his Guru Dattatreya and received a thousand arms from him as a boon. He had attained all the siddhis, who became famous by the name Sahastrabahu i.e. Sahastrajun. The same Sahastrabahu climbed on the divine and divine chariot from the sun and conquered the whole earth and called it Saptadvipeshwar and became established in the whole world. It is said that Sahastra Bahu worshiped Atri son Dattatreya for ten thousand years and performed extremely difficult penance and received many divine and miraculous gifts.

Sahastrabahu Parashuram War................

It is said that once Sahastrajun arrived with his entire army to rest in the ashram of Jamadagni Rishi (father of Jamadagni sage Parasurama). Maharishi Jamadagri welcomed Sahastrajun to his ashram. It is said that Rishi Jamadgri had a Kamadhenu cow with divine qualities derived from Devraj Indra. With the help of that cow, Maharishi arranged the food of the entire army in a short time. After being impressed by the amazing qualities of Kamadhenu cow, in the mind of Sahastrajun, his longing to get Kamadhenu cow was aroused. In front of Maharishi Jamadagni he gave Kamdhenu Maharishi defended Sahastrajun with respect to Kamadhenu by saying that he is the only means of managing the ashram and maintaining the life of the sage clan. Jamadagni sage talk Hearing this, Sahastrajun got angry, he felt it was an insult to the king and how could the people insult him. He destroyed Maharishi Jamadagni's ashram in the guise of anger, completely destroyed, and forcibly took the sage ashram and Kamdhenu with him. Kamdhenu left the hands of Sahastrajun and went towards heaven and he had to return to his palace empty handed. When Parshuram reached his ashram, his mother Renuka told him everything. Parashurama was very angry on hearing this and reached Mahishmati Nagar with a resolve to destroy Sahastra Arjun and his entire army. There was a fierce war between Sahastrajun and Parashuram. Parashuram killed thousands of arms of Sahastrabahu Arjuna with his divine angel and then Sahastrarjun's sons killed Maharishi Jamadagri's in the ashram. Sahastrajun sons killed all the sages of the ashram, burning the ashram. Mata Renuka called her son Parashurama in a mournful voice. When Parashurama reached the ashram after listening to the call of mother, he saw the head of the father chopped off and the mother mourning. Mata Renuka mourned her attentiveness to Maharishi and attained death. Furious with the slaughter of his father and the death of his mother after performing the last rites of his mother, Parshuram took an oath that he would destroy all the Kshatriya dynasties, destroying the earth and destroying the earth as a Kshatriya. It is mentioned in the Puranas that Lord Parshuram has fulfilled his resolve by filling the five ponds of the Panchak Kshetra, devoid of Kshatriyas 21 times by filling the earth with his blood. It is said that Maharishi Ritchik himself appeared and stopped Lord Parshuram from doing so when he went and somehow stopped the destruction of the Kshatriyas.

How did Kalwar and yadav become a Vaishya with Kshatriya? The Chandra dynasty, which spread its flag all over the world, was also tried by Parshuram to destroy this dynasty, the result was that some of the Kurukshetra lost their fight in some Prabhas region; It went on, Raj grew up in the family, a big problem of subsistence became in front of Kalvar and yadav, so leaving the Kshatriya Dharma Karma and adopted Vaishya Karma, due to doing big business started being called Vaishya while Yadav doing a business of Milk product, Coting Cows ,etc.

History

Because their hereditary occupation of distilling and selling liquor was considered degrading, the Kalals held a very low status in the traditional caste hierarchy of South Asia. This situation changed when the Kalal chief Jassa Singh rose to political power in the 18th century. Jassa Singh styled himself as Ahluwalia after the name of his native village, and established the ruling dynasty of the Kapurthala State.

Following Jassa Singh's rise, other Sikh Kalals also adopted Ahluwalia as the name of their caste, and started giving up their traditional occupation. The regulations imposed by the colonial British administration on manufacture and sale of liquor accelerated this process, and by the early 20th century, most Kalals had abandoned their traditional occupation. By this time, Ahluwalias had started claiming Khatri or Rajput origins to enhance their social status.

Before the advent of the British rule, the Muslim Kalals also attempted to raise their social status by adopting the Kakezai Pashtun identity. Some of these Kalal-turned-Kakezais, such as the Hoshiarpur family that ruled the Jalandhar Doab in the 1840s, further raised their status by claiming to be high-caste Shaikhs. Like the Sikh Kalals, some Muslim Kalals also claimed Khatri or Rajput origin.

Kalwars in Allahabad were claiming themselves to be of the Kshatriya status in the 1890s.

During the British rule, the Kalals took up a variety of occupations, including trade, agriculture, army service (especially the Ahluwalias), government service, and law.

See also

• Sanskritisation