Are Katika

Are-Katika, Katika is the Khatik community from Telangana, Andhra pradesh and Karnataka states in India. In Northern part of the country they are known as khatiks. The traditional trade of this community is goat and sheep meat selling. They follow Hinduism and do not slaughter animals for halal meat, which can only be done by Muslim Qureshis. After the animal is slaughtered, they separate the skin and other parts from carcass for selling as meat and its bye products. The women folk sell the bye products of goat and sheep in toddy shops. CHAKNA is a traditional delicacy prepared by the women with goat tripe and other animal digestive parts like intestines. CHAKNAWADI is a place named after this dish is in Begumbazar of Hyderabad (India), where maximum families of this community hail from. Most of them work as daily wage earners in Mandis (Slaughter houses) for their livelihood. Though more than sixty percent of the Khatiks in Telangana still follow the traditional unclean profession of meat selling, they do not come under Scheduled Caste (SC) status by the Government of India and are categorized in Other Backward Classes. And Khatik's are known as kshtriya tribes.who were assigned as soldiers of maratha clan.