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'''Hatkar''', also known as [[Bargi]] [[Dhangar]] is the warrior caste and one of the sub-caste of the [[Dhangar]]s found in [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] region of India.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Landscapes in Conflict: Flocks, Hero-stones, and Cult in Early Medieval Maharashtra |first=Ajay |last=Dandekar |journal=Studies in History |date=August 1991 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=301–324 |doi=10.1177/025764309100700207 |s2cid=162355452 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Patterns of Variation in a Caste-Cluster of Dhangars of Maharashtra, India| url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/44612 |first=K. C. |last=Malhotra |journal=Collegium Antropologicum |volume=25 |issue=2 |date=Dec 2001 |pages=425–42 |pmid=11811272}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Haptoglobin and acid phosphatase gene distributions in the Dhangars of Maharashtra, India| url=https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jgen/063/01/0039-0045 |first=K. C. |last=Malhotra |journal=Journal of Genetics |volume=63 |issue=1 |date=April 1977 |pages=39–45 |doi=10.1007/BF02984224| s2cid=25217479 }}</ref>{{sfnp|Enthoven |1990|p=321}} Their home language is [[Marathi language|Marathi]].{{sfnp|Hassan|1989|p=166}}{{sfnp|Enthoven |1990|p=312}} However, [[Bargi]] is a distinct sub-caste from Hatkar Dhangar.{{sfnp|Pathak|2009|p=52}}  

[[Shamba Joshi]] traced the origin of the name to the word "Hatakara", meaning cattle herder and a synonym of [[Dhangar]].<ref name="SBJ_1952">Joshi, S. B.. (1952). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41784634 Etymology of place names paṭṭi-haṭṭi: Some observations on the History of Mahārāṣṭra & Karṇāṭaka]. Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 33(1/4), 41–56.</ref> He traced the ancestry of Hatkars (Hattikaras) to the "Patti-Jana" people who were settled to the south of [[Narmada river]] in the Middle Ages. He also traced the etymology of the word "[[Maratha]]" to "[[Marhatta (region)|Mara-hatta]]", and theorized that the region was originally known as "Hatta-desa".<ref name="SBJ_1952"/>There are total 32 kulis of the hatkars which are specified in the book called as Dhangar samajachi kule v gotre by Ganpatrao kolekar.

According to Hassan, In point of social standing the Hatkars rank with the [[Maratha (caste)|Maratha]] -[[Kunbis]], with whom they exchange ''kachi'' (uncooked) food. The Hatkar males and females dress and decorate themselves like the [[Kunbis]].{{sfnp|Hassan|1989|p=254}}  The marriage ceremony of the Hatkars differs little from that in vogue among the [[Kunbis]]. [[Deshastha Brahmins]] are employed as priests in religious and ceremonial observances. Kulis of Hatkars are formed after the model common among the [[Maratha]] castes.{{sfnp|Hassan|1989|p=250}}

 

Primary occupation of Hatkars is farming.{{sfnp|Lukacs|2001|p=453}} In the past, the Hatkars were cultivators and held land-tenures of different grades. They were [[Patil (title)|patil]],Inamdars and [[Deshmukh]], [[Shepherd]] or occupancy and non-occupancy [[raiyat]]s and landless day-labourers.{{sfnp|Hassan|1989|p=254}}

* {{cite book|last=Lukacs|first=John|author-link=John Lukacs|year=2001|title=The People of South Asia: The Biological Anthropology of India, Pakistan, and Nepal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PLTzBwAAQBAJ|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781489950031}}