Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Tacchan
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Tacchan.—The name of the carpenter sub-division of Kammālans, and further returned, at the census, 1891,as an occupational sub-division by some Paraiyans. Taccha Karaiyān has been recorded as a name for some members of the Karaiyān fishing caste. The Tacchasāstram, or science of carpentry, prescribes in minute details the rules of construction.