<P> Rao's study of the Yadava elite in the various states (based on the members and supporters of the All India Yadav Sabha and not on those of the rival All India Yadav Mahasabha) reveals the growth of varied business and professional groups within the caste category . Heading the list are businessmen who comprise roughly 21 per cent of the elite . They include dairy owners, contractors, tobacco and timber merchants, wholesale grass dealers, owners of engineering firms and other industries as well as restaurant owners . They are followed by the large farmers who comprise around 21 per cent of the Yadav elite . Politicians (MPs, MLAs, ministers, municipal councillors, district board members, office - bearers of political parties) constitute 17 percent of the elite and school and college teachers, doctors, lawyers and engineers together another 20 percent . Mandelbaum has commented on how the community basks in the reflected glory of those members who achieve success, that "Yadav publications proudly cite not only their mythical progenitors and their historical Rajas, but also contemporaries who have become learned scholars, rich industrialists, and high civil servants ." He notes that this trait can also be seen among other caste groups . </P> <P> The Sadar festival is celebrated by Yadav community in Hyderabad, the following the day of Diwali each year . Community members parade, dancing around their best buffalo bulls, which have been colorfully decorated with flowers and paint . </P> <P> The Yadav are included in the category Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the Indian states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal . In the state of Uttar Pradesh the Social Justice Committee reported over representation of Upper OBCs, specially the Yadavs in public offices and suggested creating sub categories within the OBC category and the Yadav / Ahir are the only group listed in Part A of a three - part OBC classification system introduced there following the official report of 2001 . </P> <P> The Allahabad High court in 2013, restrained Government of Uttar Pradesh from continuing the reservation for Ahir, Yadav, Yaduvanshi and Gwala stating the reason that representation of these OBC communities in government services has reached to 59.67 percent . Court also said that exclusion of well represented classes will help other groups who are not able to compete with these advanced groups . </P>

Yadav caste belongs to which category in bihar