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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. Hobson Jobson page 296 [http://www.archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n349/mode/2up Dandy, dandi]
*Photographs showing a Palkee, Palki, Palanquin, with Bearers: [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.00366/ Palanquin, India] Library of Congress. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58937~!41&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Palkee, Calcutta]. Smithsonian Institution. Click image to enlarge. Undated, before 1903. [http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2011/03/four-men-carrying-palkee-palanquin.html Four men carrying a Palkee (Palanquin) c 1870s] Old Indian Photos.
**Post-Masters were tasked with assisting travellers going from one place to another by 'laying the dawk' for them upon request and on due payment.<ref>
Kolhatkar, Arvind [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2015-05/1431529726 Laying the Dawk - Part 2] ''Rootsweb India-British-Raj Mailing List'' 13 May 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015</ref> This referred to appointing relays of bearers to be ready on certain nights, at certain stations by which the traveller passed passed. "Five men carry the palkee, four more attend as reserves to take their turn, two carry tin petarrahs, or boxes slung on a pole, and two carry torches".<ref> [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9LIRAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22laying%20the%20dawk%22&pg=PA16 "A Tiger Tale"] page 16 ''Warne’s Home Annual 1868'' Google Books.</ref> The word dawk survives as dak, as in dak bungalow, a traveller's rest house. Routes, estimates of times, costs etc are included in [https://books.google.ca/books?id=GZMRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR6 ''Itinerary and Directory for Western India: being a collection of routes through the provinces subject to the Presidency of Bombay, and the principal roads in the neighbouring states''] by Captain John Clunes 12th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry 1826. Google Books
**[https://archive.org/stream/glimpsesofoldbom00dougrich#page/148/mode/2up “Across India in a Palkee” [in 1845]<nowiki>]</nowiki> page 149 ''Glimpses of Old Bombay and Western India, with other papers'' by James Douglas 1900 Archive.org. Article with images: [http://oldphotosbombay.blogspot.com/2011/02/bombay-to-calcutta-18251400-miles-in-25.html "Bombay to Calcutta ...1,400 Miles In 25 Days, in a Palanquin...] Old Photos,Bombay
*Inflated animal skins
==Recommended Reading==
*This [http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Reminiscences-of-the-Raj/549103 ''Indian Express''] article describes the book ''Mehtars and Marigolds'' by Barbara Dinner 2009, about four generations of her family from 1874, starting in Simla. This [http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/entertainment/Bath-India-8211/article-1540735-detail/article.html link] also discusses the book which has been favourably reviewed in [[FIBIS Journals|FIBIS Journal]] no 25 (Spring 2011).
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