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*[https://www.livehistoryindia.com/snapshort-histories/2018/12/12/dak-banglas-their-dark-tales "Dak Banglas & Their Dark Tales"] by Aditi Shah December 12th 2018. ''Live History India.'' "The word ‘dak’ is Urdu for 'post' and dak banglas were initially built by the British Indian Public World Department to help postal officers relay the mail in stages."
*[https://www.livehistoryindia.com/snapshort-histories/2018/12/12/dak-banglas-their-dark-tales "Dak Banglas & Their Dark Tales"] by Aditi Shah December 12th 2018. ''Live History India.'' "The word ‘dak’ is Urdu for 'post' and dak banglas were initially built by the British Indian Public World Department to help postal officers relay the mail in stages."
==Inflated animal skins==
==Inflated animal skins==
*The Khatnaoo, an inflatable bullock skin used for water travel (may also be called a Dareyi)<ref>Shiraz, Richard [https://in.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/apnahimachal/conversations/messages/1159 kundan from harsi]  Apna Himachal Yahoo group July 14, 2005. Retrieved 24 May 2015</ref>. Also known as a mussuck or mussak.
*The Khatnaoo, an inflatable bullock skin used for water travel (may also be called a Dareyi)<ref>Shiraz, Richard [https://web.archive.org/web/20150524041936/https://in.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/apnahimachal/conversations/messages/1159 kundan from harsi]  Apna Himachal Yahoo group July 14, 2005, now archived.</ref>. Also known as a mussuck or mussak.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=R6mLH_rImHYC&lpg=PT73&ots=i-ES_iUDX0&dq=mussak%20mussuck&pg=PT73 Description of  a raft made from a charpoy bed-frame fastened over two mussaks] by Harry Lumsden  of the Guides, probably c late 1840s,  quoted in ''Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier'' by Charles Allen Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=R6mLH_rImHYC&lpg=PT73&ots=i-ES_iUDX0&dq=mussak%20mussuck&pg=PT73 Description of  a raft made from a charpoy bed-frame fastened over two mussaks] by Harry Lumsden  of the Guides, probably c late 1840s,  quoted in ''Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier'' by Charles Allen Google Books, Also available page 101 [https://archive.org/details/soldiersahibsmen0000alle/page/101/mode/2up  Archive.org/Books to Borrow/Lending Library version].
**C 1857 Illustration:  [https://archive.org/stream/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog#page/n153/mode/2up  page 125] ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal'' by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org
**C 1857 Illustration:  [https://archive.org/stream/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog#page/n153/mode/2up  page 125] ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal'' by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org
**[http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/202213/samuel-bourne-mussucks-for-crossing-the-beas-below-bajoura-english-1866/  Photograph: Mussucks for Crossing the Beas below Bajoura 1866] (North West India), by Samuel Bourne. From an album of photographs. J. Paul Getty Museum.
**[http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/202213/samuel-bourne-mussucks-for-crossing-the-beas-below-bajoura-english-1866/  Photograph: Mussucks for Crossing the Beas below Bajoura 1866] (North West India), by Samuel Bourne. From an album of photographs. J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Travel on land

By palanquin or dandy

By horse or bullock drawn vehicle

By motor transport

  • "Roads And Motor Transport In India" by Brigadier-General Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Adviser on Mechanical Transport Services in India, 1915-19. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 68, No. 3529 (July 9, 1920), pp. 541-552 jstor.org. Available to read for free on JSTOR, but first you must register, see Miscellaneous tips

Dak bungalows

  • "Dak Banglas & Their Dark Tales" by Aditi Shah December 12th 2018. Live History India. "The word ‘dak’ is Urdu for 'post' and dak banglas were initially built by the British Indian Public World Department to help postal officers relay the mail in stages."

Inflated animal skins

Travel by air

References

  1. Kolhatkar, Arvind Laying the Dawk - Part 2 Rootsweb India-British-Raj Mailing List 13 May 2015, archived.
  2. "A Tiger Tale" page 16 Warne’s Home Annual 1868 Google Books.
  3. Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road , photograph 114, exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum
  4. Shiraz, Richard kundan from harsi Apna Himachal Yahoo group July 14, 2005, now archived.