What is Kallar (caste)?
Kallar is one of the three related castes of southern India which constitute the [[Mukkulathor]] confedaracy or league of caste.<ref>{{cite book |title=Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages= 62, 87, 193 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aqKSTs4ajsAC&pg=PA193 |first=Pamela G. |last=Price |edition=Reprinted |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-52155-247-9}}</ref> The Kallar, along with the [[Maravar|Kallar]] caste and [[kallar|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 [[Nadar (caste)|Kallar]] and [[Mukkulathor|Thevar]]s, traditionally practised a Tamil martial art variously known as ''adi murai'', ''chinna adi'' and ''varna ati''.The Kallar were traditionally a non-vegetarian people.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d8k98lBxwM4C&dq=kallar+vegetarian&pg=PA21 Criminal gods and demon devotees: essays on the guardians of popular Hinduism -] [[Alf Hiltebeitel]]</ref> ==Reference== {{reflist}} [[Category:Castes in Tamil Nadu]]