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**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZWImTqW5s The British Empire and India (part 2 of 2)]
===Means of transport===
*[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://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]page 296 Hobson Jobson 1903 (first published 1886) Archive.org
*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> [https://archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n351/mode/2up Dawk/dak],meaning Post, page 299 Hobson Jobson. 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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/hobsonjobson029985mbp#page/n389/mode/2up Ecka/ekka] page 336 Hobson-Jobson. A small one horse carriage. [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://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vintage_photo_of_an_Ekka_(Horse_cart)_in_the_1880s.JPG Photograph: An ekka native 4 passenger omnibus] c 1880s Wikimedia
**[https://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3920409573/in/photostream/ Photograph: No 28 ‘Ekka' with passenger and baggage, coming from Cashmere (Kashmir) to Murree] probably taken 1901-1903 flickr.com This was No 28 of a series of stereoscopic views and a description of this photograph appears on [https://archive.org/stream/indiathroughste00ricagoog#page/n107/mode/2up page 100] ''India through the stereoscope : a journey through Hindustan'' by James Ricalton 1907 Archive.org
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3MefAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA56 Photograph: An ekka, an ox-drawn cart c 1914 at Belgaum] page 56 ''Chota Sahib... You've Had a Busy Day'' by Charles Nida Google Books
**[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
*Inflated animal skins
**The Khatnaoo, an inflatable bullock skin used for water travel (may also be called a Dareyi)
