Jutka of Indian pony carriage, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two-wheeled covered carriage, drawn by a single pony. See Hobson-Jobson: 'Jutka ... The native cab of Madras, and of Mofussil towns in that Presidency; a conveyance only to be characterised by the epithet ramshackle, though in that respect equalled by the Calcu...
Karanchy [cranchee], Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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View of a small four-wheeled carriage drawn by a pair of horses. See 'Hobson-Jobson': 'Cranchee...This appears peculiar to Calcutta. A kind of ricketty and sordid carriage resembling ... the skeleton of an old English hackney-coach of 1800-35 (which no doubt was the model), drawn by wretched pon...