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APPENDIX THREE
THE KHATTIE TRIBE OF NORTHWEST INDIA
The following information on the Khattie (also spelled Catti) tribe of India is extracted from Brown's excellent work
The Races of Mankind (Volume Three, pages 315-316) written in the late 1800's:
"This remarkable race of men inhabit the peninsula of Saurashtra or Guzerat, and are midway between barbarism and
civilisation. They are, perhaps, the most important tribe in western India, and presenting many traits of originality in
manners and religion, they deserve a notice, even in the short space we can devote to the many aboriginal tribes of
India. They are supposed to be the Cathaei, who, at the time of Alexander the Great's invasion of India, lived in a
nook of the Punjab, and who by their desperate valour impeded the progress of the picked soldiers of Macedonia.
Since that time their history can be traced, and everywhere it is distinguished by a stern resistance to the many
invaders and conquerors whom they have encountered, and by a valour worthy of a better fate than they have met at
the hands of the latest of their masters. The Khattie is essentially a horseman, and in this character devotes his
attention to freebooting and black mail, from friend and foe alike. He is cruel, but brave, and a more energetic
individual than a typical member of this race does not exist. He is in figure tall and handsome, his frame is athletic
and sinewy, but his countenance is harsh and unpre-possessing.
"They seem Scythians of a somewhat recent date, and when they arrived in Guzerat they displaced and reduced to
slavery two aboriginal tribes, the Aheers and Babreeas, whom they found in possession. This supplies another proof,
among many, that there are aborigines and aborigines in India, in other words that many of the tribes which for the sake
of convenience we now call aborigines have under them or intermixed a still deeper stratum of native races. However, if
we go into this question there are almost no autothonic races; there are no true aborigines; all so- called 'native races'
came from somewhere else. It is believed that they first became resident in Guzerat in the ninth century of our era. Up
to 1807 they were thieves and robbers by profession, but these dubious traits of national character have perforce to be
displayed in secret. Many of them are horse breeders, but will not intermarry with the Aheers or herdsmen. Taxes they
refuse to pay unless forced, and except in the case of the chiefs, who compromise with their honour by allowing taxes to
be levied on their lands and herds, no one pays of his own accord. Private feuds, and public wars, thin the tribes, so that
at no modern period have the Khatties been numerous. Jealousy of each other and love of independence have allowed
them to unite into one strong body of men, who could be formidable to any great power. They are ruled by petty
chieftains, who live in little fortresses from which they sally forth and plunder, and retreat into, to escape the wrath of
their pursuers.
"They are excellent horsemen, and pride themselves on the superior quality of their animals; when about to engage in
a predatory fight they hire mercenaries to assist them, and use firearms which on ordinari occasion they disdain to carry,
though greatly fearing their effects. These mercenaries are sometimes very low-caste Hindoos, whose services they
repay with the asses captured. Of the horses bred by them they only sell the stallions, retaining the mares for their own
use, on account of their value in not betraying them on plundering expeditions by their neighing. Primogeniture is
unknown in this tribe. All the children, the daughters excepted, inherit the parents' property alike. Though polygamy is
allowed they rarely marry more than one wife. The women are celebrated throughout India for their grace and
beauty, and are kindly in their disposition. They have been often known to alleviate the sufferings of prisoners, whom
the men were putting to the torture, in order to force them to discover concealed treasure, or to extort ransom. The
widow of the eldest brother in Khattie family can please herself as to another union, but the widow of a younger
brother, unless she declines to again enter wedlock, becomes the wife of the eldest brother. The property of a female
descends with the children to her nearest relatives, even though the father is living.
"The Khatties bear the reputation of being treacherous to each other, but they rarely betray a guest who comes to them
in the guise of a supplicant. Accordingly outlaws and desperate men of every description find an asylum amongst them.
They worship the sun as their chief divinity, and near Thaun they have a temple with an image erected in honour of this
deity. Their priests are, however, limited in their functions to the celebration of marriage and burial rites, and perform
no other religious duties. They use no form of prayer, and limit themselves in the supplications to the deity to fixing
their eyes on the sun with their hands clasped, and repeating any words which might suggest themselves as suitable to
the expressions of desire for the boon sought. In celebrating funeral rites they place food before the lapwings. Omens
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