They are believed to have entered India during the fifth or sixth century.

Several clans of Rajputs, as well as considerable sections of the Ahir and Kunbi castes were, in his opinion, derived from the Gujars.

In the Central Provinces the Gujars have now settled down into respectable cultivators.

The Ahirs or cowherds and graziers probably take their name from the Abhiras, another of the Scythian tribes.

But they have now become a purely occupational caste, largely recruited from the indigenous Gonds and Kawars, to whom the business of tending cattle in the jungles is habitually entrusted.