Kakur

The Kakur are a Muslim caste of labourers historically found in central India, and associated with the Pindara.

Colonial description

The Kakur were described in Edward Balfour's 1871 publication, Cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia:

Kakur are a dark colored, spare and sinewy migratory race, in the centre of the peninsula of India, who are usually regarded as identical with the Pindara that overran the south of India. They are found residing in most of the villages north of the Tumbudra river. They possess small active ponies, on which they bring the grass that they cut in the jungles, and otherwise act as carriers, but they might at any moment become active marauders. They are also screen or tatti-makers, and a few have become agricultural or engage in horse dealing. They elect a chief, to wham they give the rank of Bissaldar. They are all mahomedans and they use a dialect to which they give the name of Lahaura-ha-noche.^[1]

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