LEADER 02399nam 2200373 450 001 9910725993703321 005 20230702154239.0 024 7 $a10.4000/books.ifp.726 035 $a(CKB)5470000002601396 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000002601396 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000002601396 100 $a20230702d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE WHEELED VEHICLE IN INDIA /$fJean Deloche 210 1$aPondiche?ry :$cInstitut Franc?ais de Pondiche?ry,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (160 pages) 225 1 $aCollection Indologie ;$v126 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aThis book is a contribution to the history of the wheeled vehicle in India. In the first part we examine the present carriages, their types and their distribution; then, in the light of these clearly discernible facts, we intend to interpret the sources concerning, on the one hand, the wheeled vehicles from Protohistory to the Mughal period, and on the other hand, the changes introduced by the transport revolution of the middle of the 19th century. It shows that, prior to the British period, the northern plains of India were favoured with a variety of vehicles for travelling and for goods traffic, many of them with a rudimentary form of suspension, while in the Deccan, most of the country carts were heavy, ill-constructed and not fit for distant journeys. The reason why the people of Hindusthan showed much greater ingenuity than those of the Deccan concerning the construction of carts is perhaps due to the fact that, over the centuries, greater attention was given there to roads and their maintenance than on the peninsula: at least since Asoka, the sovereigns of the Gangetic Plain were interested in the question of roads, and particularly in the good condition of the Grand Trunk Road and the axes leading to the Gulf of Cambay. 410 0$aCollection Indologie ;$v126. 606 $aCarriages and carts 615 0$aCarriages and carts. 676 $a688.6 700 $aDeloche$b Jean$0641090 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910725993703321 996 $aContribution to the history of the wheeled vehicle in India$92883870 997 $aUNINA