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.
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, obsolete) A lodging-house in South India for pilgrims and travelling members of the higher castes.
(India, historical) A rest-house for wayfarers; a choultry.
(India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.
A historical Anglo-Indian term for a large palanquin — an enclosed litter carried by bearers and used to transport passengers, particularly women of high status or rank in Mughal-era India. The chundole was a grander, more enclosed version of the ordinary palanquin.
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(India, historical) A Hindu caravanserai.
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