Shiv Dayal Singh Yadava (born 3 March 1927, Sadat Nagar, Haryana) is an Indian army officer, retired in 1983 as a Major General, and author of the 2006 work Followers of Krishna: Yadavas of India. Born to Captain Puran Singh (SB, OBI), Yadava studied at King Georges School in Ajmer before joining the Army in 1947. Later, in the 1980s while serving as Commander 101 Area in Shillong, Yadava initiated a program to use Liquified Petroleum Gas as a cooking fuel for his command, in order to avoid both the expense and deforestation resulting from the use of firewood for cooking. He has written a book titled Followers of Krishna: Yadavas of India.<ref name="Yadava2006"/>
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