AJGAR was a suggested alliance of the Ahir, Jat, Gurjar and Rajput castes. It was first proposed by Sir Chhotu Ram, a rural leader and politician in pre-independence India as a form of peasant-alliance.
The theory was later used by Chaudhary Charan Singh in the 1970s as a part of his Kisan-Politics to break the monopoly of Indian National Congress in Uttar Pradesh. He subscribed to the Martial Race theory that Ahirs, Jats, Gurjars and Rajputs are of the same social and racial group, the Kshatriya clan.
Aims and objectives
The backward castes are prosperous throughout the state of Uttar Pradesh and constitute the mid-strata of the village social structure. At present, the Panchayati raj, has decided that marriages between these castes would not be considered as inter caste marriage. It's being promoted as single entity called Kshatriyas. AJGAR emerged to gain political power in the state.
Political outcome
In Western Uttar Pradesh, the wealth and power of AJGAR alliance increased during the Green Revolution period, but the AJGAR formula failed to gain widespread support. However, later in 1989, the leader V. P. Singh used the AJGAR cluster successfully to conjoin the Other Backward Classes and Rajputs.