Kaithi

11080 - 110CF

Kaithi ( कैथी ), also Kayathi or Kayasthi, is the name of a historical writing, which took place in many parts of northern India use, especially in the former north-western provinces of Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh ) and Bihar.

It was used in legal, administrative and private records.

A proposal to encode the Kaithi font in the Unicode standard has been adopted by the Unicode Technical Committee for the range U 11080-110 CF.

Word origin

The Kaithi font derives its name from the word Kayastha, a social group ( jati ) of Northern India, which traditionally consists of clerks and officials .. The Kayastha community was closely associated with the royal courts and the colonial governments of North India, and were employed by them to revenue transactions, legal documents and title deeds on and extrapolate to create general correspondence and courtyards processes at the Regal ( court) and thus record associated institutions. The font used by them was named Kaithi.

History

Documents in the Kaithi font are up to at least the 16th century traceable. The use of Scripture was widespread during the Mughal Empire. In the 1880s, during the British Raj, the font was recognized as the official script in the courts in Bihar. Although Kaithi was distributed generally in some areas more than Devanagari, she lost against the latter to ground when power struggle about recognition as an official font.