The vibrant Boda Tyohar festival, the largest annual celebration for the Hatti tribes of the Trans-Giri region in Himachal Pradesh,

About Hattis:

The Hattis is a close-knit community that 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. The Tons marks the border between the two states.

There are two main Hatti clans: one in the Trans-Giri area of the Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh and the other in Jaunsar Bawar of Uttarakhand.

The two Hatti clans have similar traditions, and intermarriages are common.

They are governed by a traditional council called ‘khumbli’ which decides community matters.

Economy:

The Hatti population relies on agriculture for livelihood and bare subsistence since their climate is ideal for growing “Cash Crops.”

In 2023, the Indian government granted Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the Hatti community in Himachal Pradesh.

The Jaunsar- Bawar region of Uttarakhand was granted tribal status in 1967.

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