Smita Tewari Jassal (dir.), Contributions to Indian sociology, Mouton, , 319–351 p. (lire en ligne), « Caste in the Colonial State: Mallahs in the census »
Leon Swartzberg, The north Indian peasant goes to market, New Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, (lire en ligne), p. 11
(en) William R. Pinch, Peasants and monks in British India, Berkeley, University of California Press, , 242 p. (ISBN0-520-20061-6, lire en ligne), p. 90« Gopis, Goalas, and Ahirs, who would by early 1900s begin referring to themselves as Yadav kshatriyas, had long sought and attained (after 1898) recruitment as soldiers in the British Indian army, particularly in the Western Gangetic Plain ».
Lawrence S. Leshnik et Günther-Dietz Sontheimer, Pastoralists and nomads in South Asia, O. Harrassowitz, (lire en ligne), p. 218« The Ahir and allied cowherd castes (whether actually pastoralists or cultivators, as in the Punjab) have recently organized a pan-Indian caste association with political as well as social reformist goals using the epic designation of Yadava (or Jadava) Vanshi Kshatriya, ie the warrior caste descending from the Yadava lineage of the Mahabharata fame. »
