Hatti Community

10pointer31 Oct, 2022Education

10POINTER- The central government decision to bring the Hatti community under the Scheduled Tribes list in Himachal Pradesh?s Sirmaur district is spreading resentment among some sections. About The Hattis are a close-knit community who take their name from their traditional occupation of selling home-grown crops, vegetables, meat, and wool at small-town markets known as ?haats?. Hatti men traditionally don a distinctive white headgear on ceremonial occasions. The Hatti homeland straddles the Himachal-Uttarakhand border in the basin of the Giri and Tons rivers, both tributaries of the Yamuna.