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Origin of the Sainis

   INDIA IS AN ANCIENT COUNTRY WHOSE HISTORY DATES BACK TO 3000 BC STARTING WITH EARLY SETTLEMENTS OF INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION.THIS CIVILZATION WAS CAPTURED BY ARYANS AROUND 1500 BC. THE LANGUAGE OF EARLY INDUS CIVILIZATION DISCOVERED FROM ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES OF HARRAPA AND MOHIN-JO-DARO ARE NOT YET DECIPHERED BY RESEARCHERS WORKING ON THIS CIVILIZATION.  SO NO THEORY RELATING ON IMMIGRATION  OF ARYANS SPEAKING INDO-EUOPEAN LANGUAGES IS YET APPROVED. ARYANS ESTABLISHED NEW CENTRES ON THE BANKS OF DIFFERENT RIVERS OF SAPT-SINDHU (NORTH WEST INDIA). IMPORTANT CENTRES WERE KALIBANGAN, RAKHIGARHI AND AGROHA IN HANSI HISSAR, ROPAR IN PUNJAB, AHAR IN RAJASTHAN DURING 1500-900 BC. THIS IS EARLY VEDIC PERIOD. DURING 900-500 BC CALLED AS LATE VEDIC PERIOD, NEW AREAS WERE EXPLORED IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN GANGETIC PLAINS AND CONSEQUENTLY NEW SETTLEMENTS WERE ESTABLISHED. AND FIRST 16 MAHAJANPADS WERE ESTABLISHED AND INDIA WAS GIVEN THE NAME BHARAT. IMPORTANT KINGDOMS WERE PURU, PANCHALA, SURASENA, AVANTI, VIDHEA, VATSI, KAMBOJA, KASI, ANGA AND KOSALA ETC. WITH GROWTH IN POPULATION THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT TRIBES LIKE YADU, TURVASAS, PURUS AND DRUSHYAS.

       SAINIS ORIGIN IS TRACED BACK TO A BRANCH OF YADUS OF SURASENA KINGDOM WHOSE CAPITAL WAS MATHURA. MAHARAJA SHOOR SAINI WAS THE GREATEST KING OF THIS REPUBLIC. HE STRONGLY BELIEVED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND KINDNESS AND KARMA SIDHANT OF VEDICISM. HE POSSESSED A SOUND KNOWLEDGE OF LAW AND HE RULED THE KINGDOM UNDER LAWS COMPOSED INTO A BOOK. HE GAVE A NEW WAY OF LIFE TO HIS KINGDOM KNOWN AS THE SAINI RELIGIOUS WAY OF LIFE. HE GAVE THE VISION TO THESE PEOPLE TO WORK HARD IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR OCCUPATION. THIS IS THE REASON SAINIS PROFESS DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS LIKE FLORICULTURE, AGRICULTURE, BAGHBANI AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF INDIA. A PICTURE OF HIM IS STILL PRESENT IN LAHORE MUSEUM IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN SHOWN SITTING ON A THRONE WHOSE SIDE ARMS ARE DENOTING LIONS INDICATING STRENGTH OF HIS EMPIRE AND ON A TABLE LYING BESIDE HIM IS PLACED A BOOK OF LAW.

       FARMING COMMUNITIES OF INDIA LIKE SAINIS, AHIRS(YADAVAS) CLAIM THEMSELVES TO BE DESCENDENTS OF YADU ARYANS. IN FOLLOWING CENTURIES SAINIS AND AHIRS ALONG WITH OTHER BRANCHES OF YADUS AND SOME OTHER ARYANS ALIGNED THEMSELVES UNDER THE BANNER OF KRISNA-PANDAVA AND FOUGHT AGAINST THE ARYANS WHO ACCEPTED THE HEGEMONY OF ORTHODOX BRAHMINS TO RULE THE KINGDOMS AND DEFEATED THEM. DURING THIS TIME  INTERMARRIAGES BETWEEN DIFFERENT YADU BRANCHES WERE POSSIBLE.eg. SATYAKI THE GRANDSON OF SHOORSAINI WAS A COUSIN OF KRISHNA AND KUNTI I.E. MOTHER OF PANDAVAS WAS DAUGHTER OF SURASENA KING. WITH PASSAGE OF TIME I.E. BETWEEN 500-300 BC THESE ARYAN TRIBES KEPT FIGHTING EACH OTHER AND THIS WAS THE PERIOD OF CHAOS. DURING THIS TIME MAGADHA EMERGED SUPREME AND THEIR KINGS WERE HIGHLY INFLUENCED BY BRAHAMNS. BRAHAMANS DIVIDED THE ARYAN KSHATRIYAS INTO SURYA AND CHANDER VANSHIS. AHIRS AND SAINIS WERE PLACED UNDER CHANDERVANSHIS.

      AS SAINIS AND AHIRS REFUSED TO ACCEPT BRAHMANISM THEY  WERE DIPLOMATICALLY  GIVEN THE SECOND PLACE AMONG KSHATRIYAS AND SO BRAHMANS FAVORED THOSE ARYAN KSHATRIYAS WHO ACCEPTED THEIR HEGEMONY AND ALLOWED THEM TO PLAY A ROLE IN THE POLITICS TO RULE THE KINGDOMS I.E. BRAHMANICAL SYSTEM IN SOCIETY. AROUND 320 BC AFTER THE INVASION AND RETREAT OF ALEXANDER OF GREEK EMPIRE IN THE NORTH WEST PLAINS OF INDIA FROM FAILURE OF HIS ARMY TO FIGHT THE VARIOUS SMALL KINGDOMS OF INDIA. CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA OF MAURYA TRIBE (A BRANCH OF YADUS) WITH HELP OF A BRAHMAN (CHANKYA) WHO HAD DEFECTED THE MAGADHA BRAHMANS AGAIN BUILT A HUGE ARMY OF CHANDRAVNSHIS ARYANS AND DESTROYED THE CORRUPT BRAHMANICAL SYSTEM FLOURISHING IN THE MAGADHA AND ALSO DEFEATED THE GENERALS OF ALEXANDER SETTLED IN GANDHARA (KAMBOJA KINGDOM OF ARYAN MAHAJANPAD) WHICH IS CALLED AS AFGHANISTAN NOW. CHANDERGUPT LATER ADOPTED THE BUDDHISM WAY OF LIFE. ASHOKA WAS THE GREATEST KING OF MAURYAS. HERE I AM MENTIONING THAT SAINIS WERE A MAJOR PART OF THIS ARMY OF MAURYA EMPIRE. DURING THIS TIME SAINIS SPREAD TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF INDIA AS THESE PARTS WERE CAPTURED WHERE ARMY UNITS WERE PLACED.

       SAINIS  CONSTITUTED A MAJOR PART OF MAURYAN ARMY AND SO THESE ARMY UNITS WERE PLACED IN THESE  REGIONS TO CONTROL AND RULE THESE AREAS. DURING THESE TIMES, SAINIS ALONG AHIRS  SETTLED IN ANDHARA, VIDHARBHA, MALWA, BIHAR ETC. AFTER 100 BC  HINDUISM SPREAD IN INDIA.  BRAHMANS INCLUDED KRISHNA'S DEITY AND "GEETA" IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES OF HINDUISM TO WIN OVER THE LARGE POPULATION OF SAINIS AND AHIRS AND ALIGNED COMMUNITIES. AFTER 140 AD SHAKAS , KUSHANAS ETC., CAME TO NORTH WEST INDIA AND ESTABLISHED THEIR RULES AND LATER GOT ABSORBED INTO SOCIETY UNDER NAMES OF DIFFERENT CASTES. THEN CAME HUNAS ETC. DURING 700 AD ERA MUSLIMS STARTED INVADING NORTH WEST INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AND FORCIBLY CONVERTED THE PEOPLE OF CONQUERED AREA TO ISLAM. THE PEOPLE WHO WERE NEW INHABITANTS OF NORTHWEST I.E. KUSHANAS , SHAKAS . SCYTHIANS , HUNAS OR THE NEW MIXED COMMUNITIES WERE EASY TARGETS AS THEY WERE STILL STRUGGLING FOR LAND HOLDINGS IN THIS AREA WHICH WAS IN TURMOIL ALREADY DUE TO STRUGGLE BETWEEN VEDIC ARYANS AND THE NEW HORDES OF ARYANS. DURING 1000-1027 MAHMUD GAZANVI ATTACKED INDIA 17 TIMES AND DESTROYED VEDIC ARYAN STRONGHOLDS OF MATHURA,  KANAUJ AND SOMNATH. AT THIS JUNCTION OF HISTORY SAINI DRIFTED THEMSELVES TO NOT EASILY APPROACHABLE AREAS OF SHIVALIK FOOT HILLS AND IN A LINEAR FASHION IN THE UPPER PARTS OF NORTHERN PLAINS NEAR THE SHIVALIK FOOTHILLS TO ESCAPE THE WRATH OF TECHNOLOGICALLY SUPERIOR ARMIES OF PERSIA (PRESENT DAY IRAN) AND ARAB MUSLIMS. LEAVING THE NER HORDES OF ARYANS IN WESTERN PARTS TO FACE DAMAGES. THAT IS THE REASON AHIRS , SAINIS AND RAJPUTS ARE NOT FOUND IN THE WESTERN AREAS I.E. PAKISTAN AND AFGANISTAN. BUT THESE ARE THE DOMINANT CASTES OF NORTH EAST PUNJAB AND SHIVALIK BELT AND  SUB-MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF AHIRWAL, WESTERN U.P., CENTRAL  INDIA AND EASTERN PLAINS OF RAJASTHAN. DUE TO THE VEDIC ORIGIN OF SAINIS, RAJPUTS AND AHIRS AND ALLIED AGRICULTURISTS LIKE KUNBIS, KURMIS, REDDYS, MARATHAS, EVEN IN PRESENT TIMES THESE CASTES ARE NOT INVOLVED INTO INTERCASTE RIVALRIES AMONG THEMSELVES.
      

 SIMILARLY DURING BRITISH RULE THEY DISCOURAGED THEMSELVES TO ACCEPT THE JAILDARIS AND OTHER TITLES AS PER THEIR VEDIC TRADITIONS OF NATIONALISM TOWARDS THEIR COUNTRY CALLED BHARAT. MOREOVER BRITISH RULED THROUGH THE POLICY OF DIVIDE AND RULE BY PLACING ONE CASTE AGAINST THE OTHER IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF INDIA AND ALLOTTED GOOD LANDS AND JOBS TO THEIR LOYALISTS I.E. WHO WERE NOT NATIONALISTS. AFTER INDEPENDENCE, WITH THE RENAISSANCE OF VEDIC AND HINDU RELIGION THESE VEDIC ARYANS ARE AGAIN ENJOYING A NEW ERA OF PROSPERITY. THEY ARE NOW A POLITICAL POWER . THEY NOW ENJOY LEADERSHIP OF INDIAN FARMING CLASS I.E. VEDIC KSATRIYAS WHO TOOK AGRICULTURE AND RELATED FARMING OCCUPATIONS LIKE DAIRY, HORTICULTURE-FLORICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE (VEGETABLE) AND GOAT AND SHEEP HERDING. SAINIS OF INDIA ARE NOT ONLY SKILLED FARMERS WHO KNOW HOW TO GET MAXIMUM OUTPUT FROM SMALL LAND HOLDINGS BUT ARE ALSO HIGHLY SKILLED IN HORTICULTURE AND FRUIT PRODUCTION (BAGHBANI). Demography Main Page