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So, some of the postcards show people solely identified by their occupation - in this case, the "dhoby" or washerman who regularly collected clothes for wash from several homes.

While Muslims have no jobs, Jats suddenly find themselves without farmhands, builders, painters, carpenters and washermen.

During the Crimean War many of the washermen attending to the washing of the French hospitals were attacked by cholera.

A Muslim washerman got no reservation, but a Hindu washerman got one.

The weaver arrayed himself in the clothes which he had borrowed from the village washermen.