Dhobi is the name of the caste of washerman people. Dhobis first steam the clothes by hanging them in a bundle over a cauldron of boiling water. They are then taken to a stream or pond where they are thoroughly washed with the aid of fuller`s earth. The Dhobi stands in the water, and taking a quantity of clothes by one end into his two hands he raises them aloft in the air and brings them heavily down upon a hunge stone slab at his feet. Dhobi repeats the process until the clothes are perfectly clean.

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