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.
They were the soldiers in the chatrapati shivaji army….they later followed the trade of goat and sheep meat selling. They follow [[Hinduism. After the animal is slaughtered, they separate the skin and other parts from carcass for selling as meat and its bye products. 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. They are descendents of suryavanshi’s..