Hummal is an archaic Anglo-Indian term for a porter or luggage carrier — a person who transported goods, bags, or loads on their person or using simple equipment.
Hummal is an archaic Anglo-Indian term for a porter or luggage carrier — a person who transported goods, bags, or loads on their person or using simple equipment. The term appears in colonial-era accounts of travel and trade in India, where porters were essential to commerce and movement in cities and along trade routes. Entirely archaic in contemporary usage; of interest to historians of colonial South Asia and labour history.
A hummal was engaged at the dock to carry the trunks to the waiting carriage.
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An Anglo-Indian term for a large earthen vessel or water pot, typically used in Indian households for storing water or liquids. The word belongs to the practical vocabulary of colonial India and is now chiefly historical, appearing in accounts of domestic life in the subcontinent.
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(India, archaic) A porter.
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