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Calcutta Coolies
Raphael Tuck & Sons' "OILETTE", ~ 1910
Native Life India Series II, Postcard 9091
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Calcutta
Coolies. The Coolies of Calcutta, otherwise porters or carriers, are men of fine physique, and are able to carry exceptionally heavy weights supported on their heads. Coolie labourers form an enormous body of men in the East, no less than 70,000 journeying yearly from India to Ceylon. The word Coolie is dervied from the Hindustani Kuli, a labourer.
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