(India, historical) A rest-house for wayfarers; a choultry.
(India, historical) A rest-house for wayfarers; a choultry.
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(historical, India) A charitable or religious house, especially a resthouse for travellers.
(India, obsolete) A lodging-house in South India for pilgrims and travelling members of the higher castes.
(India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.
(India, historical) A Hindu caravanserai.
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.