Kassāb, Kassia.—(A butcher.) Synonym of Kasai.
Kāst.—A small caste found in the Marātha Districts and Bombay, who appear to be a separate or inferior group of the Kāyasths. In Chānda they work as patwāris and clerks to moneylenders, while some are merchants and landholders. Like the Kāyasths, they wash their pens and inkstands on the Dasahra festival and worship them. Their principal deity is the god Venkatesh, a Marātha incarnation of Vishnu. In Bombay the Kāsts claim to be Yajur-Vedi Brāhmans, dress like them and keep the regular Brāhman ceremonies.[47] But they are considered to be half Marāthas and half Brāhmans, and strict Deshasth and Kokanasth Brāhmans hold their touch unclean.[48]
Katāre.—(Katār, dagger.) A surname of Sanādhya Brāhmans in Saugor. A section of Agarwāl and Oswāl Bania, Chhattīsgarhi Ahīr or Rāwat, Chadār and Basor. The Katāre sept of Basors worship a dagger.
Katharia.—(From Kathibar, the old name of eastern Rohilkhand.) A section of Gadaria and Kasār.
Kathbhaina;—Subcaste of Baiga in Bilāspur.
Kāthi.—A Rājpūt clan included in the thirty-six royal races of Rājpūts. Originally an indigenous tribe of Gujarāt, who gave their name to Kāthiāwār.
Kathia.—Name of an Akhāra or school of Bairāgi religious mendicants. See Bairāgi.
Kathotia.—(Kathotia, a wooden bowl.) A section of Darzi.
Kati or Khatti.—Subcaste of Bhuiya.
Katia.—A cast of spinners. A subcaste of Balāhi and Mahār.