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The water carriers supplied water to soldiers with their goat-sking bags or "mashq". Highly honored back in the battle, it is said that this tradition gave name to the Bhishti community that still exist in our times, though their status holds no honor anymore

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2020-06-26

Bhysties (water carriers) of Delhi' from ‘Rays from The East, or Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the Manners, Customs, Rites, and Antiquities of Eastern Nations’ (1871)

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2020-05-20

From we have this 19th century Mica painting of Water Carrier or, a name derived from Behesht (Paradise)
Moral: If we have water we are in paradise. If not, we are going there.

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2019-07-01

One of the last (Water man) ,Shakeel Ahmad offering water from a goat skin
's GungaDin 1892

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2017-05-12