Khati

'''Khati''' is a Hindu sub-caste of Vishwakarma community which mainly resides in the northern Indian states of Rajasthan,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Social Justice and Empowerment Department, Government of Rajasthan |title=List of Caste OBC |url=https://sje.rajasthan.gov.in/Default.aspx?PageID=67 |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=sje.rajasthan.gov.in}}</ref> Haryana,<ref name=":2">{{cite book |author=Michael Levien |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5NODwAAQBAJ&dq=Khati+carpenter+caste&pg=PA67 |title=Dispossession Without Development | date=5 March 2018 |publisher=OUP |page=67| isbn=978-0-19-085917-6 }}</ref> Punjab<ref>Department of School Education-Punjab. Castes under BC/OBC http://download.ssapunjab.org/sub/instructions/2017/April/SubcastesunderOBC.pdf</ref> and the National Capital Region-Delhi.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Commission for OBC, Government of NCT of Delhi |title=Lists of castes declared as OBC in the act of Delhi |url=https://obc.delhi.gov.in/obc/citizen-charter |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=obc.delhi.gov.in}}</ref> Apart from Khati, they are also addressed as Jangid, Jangra-Brahmin<ref>{{cite book |author=S. K. Chandhoke |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fFCpBzD0gjAC&pg=PA98 |title=Nature and Structure of Rural Habitations |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1990 |isbn=978-81-7022-253-8 |pages=98–99}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Paramjit S. Judge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNJkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA203|title=Mapping Social Exclusion in India: Caste, Religion and Borderlands|date=13 March 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-05609-1|pages=202–203}}</ref> and are classified as an Other Backward Class caste in the central list of National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC).<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" />

In Marwar, a carpenter is called a "Khati". It seems that the word Khati has been derived from the word Kath ([https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0#:~:text=%E0%A5%A7.,%5D%20%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A5%B0%20'%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A0%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80'%20%E0%A5%A4 काठ]). Kath means wood and Khatis are engaged in the business of making wooden articles as carpenters.<ref name=":2" /> A Khati is the same person who is called a Badai (बढ़ई) in the North West and Tarkhan in Punjab. He is called Sutar in Gorwar district, and Vinayak in Jalore district.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Bajrang Lal Lohiya |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.483898 |title=Rajasthan Ki Jatiya |date=1954 |publisher=Bajranglal Lohiya |location=Kolkata |pages=178–179 |language=hi}}</ref>

The people of Khati caste believe that they originated from Vishwakarma and respect their oaths very much.<ref name=":0" />

== See also == * Reservation in India

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Category:Indian castes Category:Social groups of Haryana Category:Social groups of Delhi Category:Hindu communities