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**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005BF3E#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=18&xywh=-267%2C-1%2C1805%2C2174 "Chapter II The dawk journey from Calcutta and Madras to Bombay"] page 7 ''The Overland Traveller, or Guide to persons proceeding to Europe via the Red Sea, from India'' by John Blackburn 1838. British Library Digital Collection.
**[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: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150422033033/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, now archived.
*[httphttps://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdmasset-management/singleitem/collection/p15799coll123/id/78892/rec/156 2A3BF1EY02_6 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
*[https://www.paperjewels.org/postcard/rickshaw-mussoorie-dandy-mussoorie Postcard: Rickshaw Mussoorie. Dandy Mussoorie] paperjewels.org. "A very unusual early split-screen postcard", by Julian Rust, undated.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04022/page/137/mode/2up "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta"] by Frank E Bushby pages 138-141 ''Bengal Past and Present, Vol-41 January-June 1931''. 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.
*[http://www.jstor.org/stable/41355210 "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#Access some articles in the JSTOR subscription website for free|Miscellaneous tips]]
===Dak bungalows===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210610015342/https://www.livehistoryindia.com/story/snapshort-histories/2018/12/12/dak-banglas-their-dark-tales / "Dak Banglas & Their Dark Tales"] by Aditi Shah December 12th 2018. ''Live History India.'' , now an archived webpage. "The word ‘dak’ is Urdu for 'post' and dak banglas were initially built by the British Indian Public World Works Department to help postal officers relay the mail in stages."
==Inflated animal skins==
*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.
