Right: Golas or Salt Makers Left: Rangrez or Dyers - Not on
display - Further information The photograph on the left is of
golas (salt makers) in Rajasthan, India. This image shows a
group of four men, three seated and one standing, gathered round
a basket of salt. John Forbes Watson wrote in volume four of The
People of India (1869-72), in which this photograph was
reproduced, "The Golahs are a low class caste or tribe of
Hindoos, but by no means one of the outcast tribes...the Golahs
are professional salt makers, while they are also general
cultivators; for it is only in the hottest weather that they can
carry out their work as salt makers...In domestic customs and
religion, the Golahs do not differ from the Jats or Goojurs in
any remarkable degree...Their women are not secluded, and assist
their families both in field labour and salt making." The
photograph on the right shows people from the caste of dyers
(rangrez) at work in the city of Delhi. This photograph was
published in volume four of John Forbes W