or CATTIVAD, a considerable district of Hindustan, in the centre of the Gujerat peninsula, situated between the 21st and 23rd degrees of north latitude. The present inhabitants, who are supposed to have been long in possession of the country, are Hindus, but of the sect which pays adoration to the sun. They are named Catties, who originally migrated from the north, along the banks of the Indus, to Cutch, and afterwards proceeded with their flocks and cattle to the extensive plains of their present country. They are many of them robbers by profession, and the country has hitherto been the scene of constant wars among its petty chiefs; and hence the large influx into this territory of Arabs, who are in great request on account of their valour and martial habits. Since the British have begun to interfere in the affairs of this country, the spirit of anarchy has been somewhat repressed, and the demand for armed retainers among the independent chiefs by whom the country is governed has diminished. The inhabitants are occupied in breeding cattle and horses;