Kollakar.--There are about seven hundred members of this community at Cochin, to which place the Kollakars, or people of Kollam, are said to have come from Quilon (Kollam) in Travancore one or two centuries ago. The majority of the men work as coolies on board steamers, and a few as fishermen. The women of the poorer classes twist rope and sell fish, while the others make lace. A few hold appointments under the Government, and, in 1907, two had passed the Matriculation examination of the Madras University. They are Roman Catholics, and are said to have been converted to Christianity by the Portuguese. They marry among themselves. The Kollakars are also found at Calicut, Cannanore, Mahe, and Tellicherry, and are mainly occupied in fishing, rope-making, and making fishing-nets. A few at Tellicherry are employed as carpenters, tailors, and petty shopkeepers. Kolla Kurup.--The Kolla Kurups of Malabar are described, in the Gazetteer of Malabar, as a sub-caste of, or a caste allied to, the Kammalans. "They combine two professions, which at first sight seem strangely incongruous, shampooing or massage, and the construction of the characteristic leather shields of Malabar. But the two arts are intimately connected with the system of combined physical training, as we should now call it, and exercise in arms, which formed the curriculum of the kalari (gymnasium), and the title Kurup is proper to castes connected with that institution." Among Kolla Kurups, the following symbolical ceremony is necessary to constitute a valid divorce. "The husband and the wife's brother stand east and west respectively of a lighted lamp placed in the yard of the woman's original home. The husband pulls a thread from his cloth, and approaches the lamp, and breaks the thread saying 'Here is your sister's accharam.'" Kollan.--The blacksmiths are iron-workers among the Malayalam Kammalans. "These Malabar Kollans," Mr. H. A. Stuart writes, [138] "are said to practice fraternal polyandry to a greater extent even than the rest of the Malabar artizan castes. Kollans are divided into (1) Ti (fire) Kollan, (2) Perum (big) Kollan, (3) Tiperum Kollan, (4) Irumbu (iron) Kollan. There are also Kadacchil Kollan (knife-grinders) and Tol Kollan (leather-workers). These are of inferior status, on account of the nature of their professions." Kollar.--A section of Tottiyan, the full name of which is Yerrakollavaru or Yerrakolla Tottiyar. Kollar is a corrupt Tamil form of Golla, to which caste the Tottiyans trace their descent. Kolli (fire-brand).--A sub-division of Kadu Kurumba. Kolli (a hill-range, the Kollimalais).--A sub-division of Malayalis. Komali (buffoon).--An exogamous sept of Odde. Komanandi.--A sub-division of Andis, who go about naked, except for a small loin cloth (komanam). Komaro.--Oriya blacksmiths. See Badhoyi.