Koliyar
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Koliyar is one of the artisan castes of the ancient Tamil society.[1] They are a community of weavers who were regularly mentioned in medieval Tamil inscriptions.[2] They were classified together with the Taccar (carpenters, stonemasons etc.), Kollar, and Tattar as constituting the Kilkalanai group. According to historian K.V Subrahmanya Iyer, this term referred to the Sanskrit Anuloma.[3]
