Djelleahs

The Djelleahs (pronounced ‘jaliya’) were local fishermen who fished the waters in eastern India, setting off with their nets and baskets in small country boats on fishing expeditions. This coloured etching by F. B. Solvyns from the first of four volumes published by him in the early nineteenth century in Paris is part of Les Hindous, his major contribution to the anthropological study of the castes and professions of people in eastern India.