Choultry is a historical Anglo-Indian term for a Hindu caravanserai — a roadside rest house or inn traditionally provided for travellers, pilgrims, and merchants in southern India. These establishments offered shelter, water, and sometimes food, maintained by charitable endowment or temple patronage. The term appears in colonial-era travel accounts, administrative records, and anthropological descriptions of South Indian infrastructure. Archaic in contemporary usage; of interest to researchers of South Asian history and travel.
They stopped for the night at a choultry on the road south, sharing the courtyard with a party of pilgrims.
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(India, historical) A Hindu caravanserai.
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