Throughout the whole of the East the trade of the water-carrier, the “Bhistie,” as he is called in India, is an ancient and honorable one. Whatever else may be dispensed with, a supply of the treasured water must always be available in a land of scorching suns, if life is to be preserved.
Source – The Queen’s Empire “A Pictorial And Descriptive Record”, Published by Cassell And Company (1897)
Photographer – Fred Bremner (1863-1941).