Sonar

In traditional northern Indian society, a
Hindu jati whose hereditary occupation
was gold smithing and jewelry making.
Traditional Indian society was modeled
as a collection of endogamous, or intermarried, subgroups known as jatis
(“birth”). These jatis were organized
660
Somnath
Somnath Shore Temple, Gujarat.
(and their social status determined) by
the group’s hereditary occupation, over
which each group held a monopoly.