Ojha.—(From Ojh, entrails.) A caste of Gond augurs, see article. A title of Maithil Brāhmans. A subcaste of Lohār, Nat and Savar.
Okkilyan.—Synonym of Wakkāliga.
Omre, Umre.—A subcaste of Bania. See Bania Umre.—A subcaste of Teli.
Onkar Nāth.—A subdivision of Jogis.
Onkule.—Subcaste of Koshti.
Orha.—Subcaste of Chasa.
Oswāl.—A subcaste of Bania. See subordinate article to Bania.
Ota.—(One who recites the Vedas aloud in sacrifices.) An honorific title of Uriya Brāhmans.
Otāri, Watkari.—A low caste of workers in brass in the Marātha country. The name is derived from the Marāthi verb otne, to pour or smelt. They number about 2600 persons in the Bhandāra and Chānda Districts, and in Berār. The caste have two subcastes, Gondādya and Marātha, or the Gond and Marātha Otāris. The latter are no doubt members of other castes who have taken to brass-working. Members of the two subcastes do not eat with each other. Their family names are of different kinds, and some of them are totemistic. They employ Brāhmans for their ceremonies, and otherwise their customs are like those of the lower artisan castes. But it is reported that they have a survival of marriage by capture, and if a man refuses to give his daughter in marriage after being asked twice or thrice, they abduct the girl and afterwards pay some compensation to the father. They make and sell ornaments of brass and bell-metal, such as are worn by the lower castes, and travel from village to village, hawking their toe-rings and anklets. There is also an Otāri subcaste of Kasārs.
Pabaiya.—(From Pabai in Bundelkhand.) A clan of Rājpūts in Hoshangābād.