Kaikari, HIND., Mann., Tam., TEL., Kaikadi, are makers of baskets from stems of cotton plants and palm leaves, but are all predatory.
Kattyawar people consist of Ahir, Koli, Kunbi, Johann, Mher, Mehman, Rajputs, Rebari, and numerous Muhammadan tribes from Sind, Makran, Baluchistan, Arabia, Miana from Cutch, Badhel, 1Vagher of Okamundel and Sindi called Bawur. The Wagher of Dwaraka with the Badhail of Aramra were long the terror of these seas. In 1803, 1858, and 1859 they repulsed British troops, but in 1868 (8th May) the place was stormed, and their chief fell.
Kattyawar Babria, a peasant tribe, give their name to the Babria district.
The Koli, 2.219,540, are scattered from Rai putana to the southern part of the Mahratta country : Mahratta, . . : 881,014 I Berar, . . . . 30,308 Abair, 2G0 Ifyderabrul, . . 213,9G6 Bloods, . . . 429,638 Koli are spread from the Thur and neighbour hood of Sind to Goa, and eastward to the Bhima. The Koli of Gujerat, up to the early part of the 19th century, were a restless, turbulent race, despising agriculture, and living by plunder. Their chiefs were Rah tor, C hauhan,Mukwan a, etc., liajputs who intermarried with the aborigines. The Dubla Koli, up to 1836, were mostly hereditary slaves. One proprietor in S. Gujerat had 300 of them. Their owners employed them in fishing and husbandry, and hired them out. The Dubla are now chiefly in the Broach and Surat dis tricts, and in the latter district were largely Ilali or predial slaves, hereditary serfs to families of colonizing Brahmans of the Aniiwala section. They are a little higher than the Dhodia in the social scale.
Kayasth, the great scribe and writing class of all India, 2,159,813. More than half the writers of Bombay claim to be Kayestha.
The Maddikpor, as they call themselves, are a migratory race in the Southern Mahratta country, who are known to the people as the Kili Kyuntur, the Kotabu. They are in general tall, well-made men, of an olive-yelloweolour. They arrange them selves into ten branches,—Avoti, Atok, Naknar, Pachungya Ram, Sinda, Samar, Saskene, Mohr kar, Sengan, and Durwia,—and claim to be allied to the Koli or Barkar. They are beggars and fishers ; their women earn a little by tattooing the foreheads of Hindu women, from which the tribe are called Putcha, and by knitting ; but the chief occupation of the men consists in exhibiting transparencies painted on deerskin in bright colours, representing the story of the Ma.habha
rata, which they relate to admiring crowds. They have also dancing puppets. They dwell in closely woven grass huts. Every worship the transparencies. The bamboo box is placed on a spot freshly covered with cow-dung, the lid is opened, and a prayer made for daily food. They are not restricted to one wife. They catch fish.
Mhang (161,970) of Kolhapur were long noto rious for their wild, untameable habits, their great cunning, hardiness, and predilection for outrage and robbery. They have been known to refuse an offer for their daughter's hand because the young man was not an expert thief. Theyare illiter ate, and make as their mark the figure of a knife. Many of their young women were devoted to the deity Kandoba as Murli, or attached as Jogini to the goddess Yellama, and on the 3d of Mangh Wud (February) they were accustomed to parade the streets in a state of nudity in honour of the goddess. Their tutelary deity is Jagadamba.
The Mhar and the Dher (852,523) of the Bombay Dekhan, the Parwari race of the lands below the ghats, the Ifolar of the Canarese speaking district, the Chandal of Bengal, the Pariah of the Tamil country, the Kahar and the Mala of the Teling nation, assimilate in physical appearance. The Dher is the great labouring class of the Bombay Dekhan, and seem to have been its first owners. The numbers returned of these races aro 10.069.739. viz. :— Mhar, . . . 1,434,446 I Chandal, . . 1,749,608 Dher, . . . 110,040 Kahar, . . 1,840,856 Dher and Mhar, 1,197,730 Holar, . . . . 447,421 Parayan, . . 3,290,038 None of all these have accepted Brahmanism, but adhere to shamanist rites. They reside outside the villages, are labourers, weaving in the intervals of agricultural operations, are village servants and watchmen. They have several sections, and the Wusydong Mbar, the Tilwun, Nun, and Aduwun claim to have come from near Benares, and to be descended from a race whom they call Doug. They are nearly all illiterate.