Kuruba (also known as Kuruba Gowda, Gowda, Kuruma and Kurumbar) is a Hinducaste whose traditional occupation was that of shepherding and farming. The community hails from Karnataka in India. They are known by different names such as Dhangar,[1] Hatkarand Telwar Lingayat in Maharashtra.
Some sources connect them to Pala, the shepherd dynasty of the Ahirs and suggest that Kuruba is a Dravidian name for Ahir.[2] But this relation is contested by R.E. Enthoven on the grounds that the Ahirs are spread over a large area of Kutch, Kathiawad, Khandesh, Central Provinces, Central India, Bengal and North Western Provinces but everywhere they are known as Ahir only then how they came to be known by a different name Kuruba in Karnataka.[3]
Etymology
History
The Kurubas are said to have been connected to the Yadu or Yadava lineage mentioned in Puranas. Traditional sources claim that the Kurubas founded the Sangam dynasty and the Vijayanagara Empire.[5]
According to Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere, a scholar of the religious traditions of Maharashtra,
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