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Bhumihars used to forcibly collect taxes from Yadavs on their milk and curd and made them perform begar (unpaid forced labor). When, in 1925, Bhumihars began facing resistance in continuing these exploitative practices against Yadavs, they allegedly resorted to rioting.<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Community_Warriors/num2I4NFGqIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Bhumihars+on+27+May+1925.+The+records+indicate+clearly+that+the+Lakhochak+riot+was+precipitated+by+the+decision+of+local+Bhumihar+zamindars+of+the+district+to+attack+a+caste+council+meeting+of+Yadavs,+which+had+assembled+to+discuss+ongoing+social+reforms+in+their+caste.+According+to+local+police+accounts,+the+Yadavs%27+(popularly+called+Goalas)+meeting+was+called+to+discuss+the+%27right+to+wear+sacred+thread+movement%27,+a+powerful+Brahmanical+privilege,+peculiar+to+the+higher+castes+in+the+local+caste+hierarchy.+The+immediate+cause+of+the+caste+riot,+however,+clearly+indicated+the+continuing+influence+of+the+pollution+barrier+between+the+upper+caste+Hindus+and+the+lower+castes.+It+has+been+inferred+that+the+%27true+motive%27+behind+the+caste+riot+lay+in+the+%27Zamindari+exactions%27+by+the+locally+powerful+Bhumihars+in+the+region.+These+Zamindari+exactions+ranged+from+non-payment+of+rent-receipt+and+begari+(bonded+labour)+to+illegal+levy+of+taxes+on+the+sale+of+milk+and+ghee+by+the+Yadavs.+41+Significantly,+these+caste+riots&pg=PA43&printsec=frontcover Community Warriors: State, Peasants and Caste Armies in Bihar]</ref>