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Dhobi ghat

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Indian (South Asian)
Location
Site: Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India)
Cultural context
Indian (South Asian)
Description
the dhobi is a traditional laundryman, who will collect your dirty linen, wash it, and return it neatly pressed to your doorstep. All for a pittance. The "laundries" are called "ghats": row upon row of concrete wash pens, each fitted with its own flogging stone. The clothes are soaked in sudsy water, thrashed on the flogging stones, then tossed into huge vats of boiling starch and hung out to dry. Next they are ironed and piled into neat bundles
general view, view from Purana Pul, with clothes drying on the ground surface, 1986
Work type
Laundry (business)
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Rights
(c) Rahul Mehrotra 1986
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