Kallar (caste)
Kallar is one of the three related castes of southern India which constitute the Mukkulathor confedaracy or league of caste.[1] The Kallar, along with the Kallar caste and Maravar caste, constitute a united social caste on the basis of professions, though their locations and heritages are wholly separate from one another.The Kallars, along with the Kallar and Thevars, traditionally practised a Tamil martial art variously known as adi murai, chinna adi and varna ati.The Kallar were traditionally a non-vegetarian people.[2]
Reference
- ↑ Price, Pamela G. (1996). Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India (Reprinted ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 62, 87, 193. ISBN 978-0-52155-247-9.
- ↑ Criminal gods and demon devotees: essays on the guardians of popular Hinduism - Alf Hiltebeitel