Posted on: 22 January 2012

Painting; watercolour, a woman food-vendor serving two travellers, Patna, ca. 1826.

Marks and inscriptions:
'Butiarnee. Traveller's cook.'
John Hall 1819 and C. Wilmot 1821

Source: V&A, London


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Toddy seller ?

Could be sherbet (fruit juice) or lassi / buttermilk (?)

or even jaljeera pani (?)

Then there is an intoxicating drink called "mahua" made from fermented flowers... our country never lacked for a drink (for all seasons)