lohar

Updated: May 5, 2025

Here is no sounding anvil, no dusky shop, with the sparks from the heated iron lighting up its dim recesses. There is little to remind one of Longfellow's beautiful poem. The lohar sits in the open air. His hammers and other implements of trade are very primitive. Like all native handicraftsmen he sits down at his work.

James Inglis - Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier: Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter

He is essentially a man of peace, hating physical contests, delighting in a keen argument, and an encounter with a plotting, calculating brain. Another proverb says that the putwarrie has as much chance of becoming a soldier as a sheep has of success in attacking a wolf. The lohar, or blacksmith, is very unlike his prototype at home.

James Inglis - Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier: Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter