The Patari are a community found mainly in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Major septs among the first sub-group include the Narkam, Poija, Kusro, Soi, Neti, and Serlo.
[1] The Patari are priests, locally known as Baigas, of a number of tribal grouping in south-east Uttar Pradesh such as the Majhwar, Chero and Bhuiyar.
[citation needed] Many Patari are now farmers and sharecroppers, having abandoned their traditional occupation of the priesthood.
[2] As of 2017, this tribal designation applies only for Sonbhadra district,[3] as it also did at the time of the 2011 Census of India when the Patari Scheduled Caste population in Uttar Pradesh was 366.