Yaduvanshi Aheer

The Yaduvanshi Aheer or Yaduvanshi Ahir claim descent from god Krishna of the ancient Yadava clan. The Ahirs have three major classifications - Yaduvanshi, Nandavanshi and Gwalavanshi. Yaduvanshis claim descent from Yadu, Nandavanshis claim descent from Nanda, the foster father of Krishna and Gwalavanshis claim descent from gopis and gopas of Krishna's childhood.

As per anthropologist Bhrigupati Singh in Classical Hinduism Krishna was from the Yaduvanshi Ahir tribe.

Historians such as P. M. Chandorkar has used epigraphical evidence to argue that Ahirs and Gawlis are representative of the ancient Abhiras and Yadavas tribe mentioned in Sanskrit works.