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*[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll123/id/78892/rec/156 Photograph: Missionary being taken up hill on a litter [dandy<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Darjeeling, ca.1890] Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland. USC Digital Library. [http://www.archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n349/mode/2up Dandy, dandi] page 296 ''Hobson Jobson'' 1903 (first published 1886) Archive.org
==By horse or bullock drawn vehicle==
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000000312u00024v00.html 1814 Sketches of the line of march with bullock carts, elephants, horsemen, etc.] by Captain Robert Smith, probably Bengal Engineers c 1814. British Library online Gallery. Click on “zoomable image” to enlarge.
*[https://archive.org/stream/howworldtravels00meth#page/32/mode/2up "Journeys Through India"] page 32 ''How the World Travels'' by A. A. Methley 1922 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n389/mode/2up Ecka/ekka] page 336 ''Hobson Jobson''. A small one horse carriage. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekka_(carriage) Ekka (carriage)] Wikipedia. [http://www.archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n459/mode/2up Hackery] page 407 ''Hobson Jobson''. Bullock cart used for goods and materials, or in some parts of India equivalent to an ekka.[http://www.archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n983/mode/2up Tonga/tongha] page 930 ''Hobson Jobson''. A carriage drawn by a pair of ponies or oxen.
**[http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010/10/indian-men-in-ox-cart-date-unknown.html Photograph: Indian Men in Ox Cart [drawn by a pair of oxen<nowiki>]</nowiki>] oldindianphotos.in. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!58605!0 A bullock Ekka (Indian carriage & pa[ir?<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 1862 National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum.
**[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00glossarydata/terms/ekka/ekka.html Images of ekkas and other carts] from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00glossary/index.html#index Early Modern India: a Select Glossary] Professor Frances Pritchett.
*[http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576061931702951172 Photograph: Hospital Shwebo, [Burma<nowiki>]</nowiki> with Different Descriptions of Ambulances, 1887 – 1897] Wall Street Journal. This photograph was included in an exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum <ref> [http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/beato/beato_checklist.pdf Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road ], photograph 114, exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum</ref>
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sfVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA137 Travelling by gharry], driven by a “mail driver” from the posting station, from Raneegunj, then the end of the railway line to Benares, page 137 ''My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9, Volume 1'', by William Howard Russell, Special Correspondent of The Times 1860 Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/stream/inhimalayasando00cummgoog#page/n50/mode/2up A description of the vehicles in a Calcutta street], with a drawing of a bullock cart, page 28 ''In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains'' by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming 1884 Archive.org. Some parts of the book were first published in 1876 in ''From the Hebrides to the Himalayas''.
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