Patti is a traditional caste of Herdsmen from

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

’s feudal past. They were a part of the feudal

land tenure In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "tenir" means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land owned by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individual ...

system and a sub-caste of the

Govigama Govigama (also known as Goyigama, Govikula, Govi Vansa or Goyi Vansa) is a Sinhalese caste found in Sri Lanka. They form approximately half of the Sinhalese population and are traditionally involved in agriculture. The term Govigama became popular ...

caste. Found in the highlands and the maritime provinces but now mostly merged into the Govigama caste.

References

* Ryan Bryce 1953 Caste in Modern Ceylon, Rutgers University Press * Ceylon Gazetteer 1855 Sinhalese castes {{SriLanka-hist-stub