![](/common/left.gif) Bullock Cart in Village India
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![Camels of Transport](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3010.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Camels are the Ships of the Desert
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![](/common/left.gif) Water being transported in a camel cart, Rajasthan
| ![Camel Cart](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3014.jpg) |
![Cart Varieties of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/3752.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Fruits transported in a bullock cart Medieval temple sculpture |
![](/common/left.gif) Decorated Auto-rickshaw
| ![Automated Rickshaw](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5040.jpg) |
![Human Powered Taxi](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5211.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Bicycle Rickshaw, Plassey in Bengal For the most part of 20th century, the bicycle taxis were the preferred mode of transport in urban India |
![](/common/left.gif) Painted wooden palanquin, Goan Museum Paratgali Muth Collection | ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5286.jpg) |
![Multipurpose Tranport Truck](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5711.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Vehicle Tranporing Goods and Men
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![](/common/left.gif) Narrow Tracks of the Shimla Express
| ![Shimla Express](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/5994.jpg) |
![Wind Sail Boat](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/6024.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Traditional Wind Sail Boat of Machwa Honavar Harbor, Karnataka |
![](/common/left.gif) A Potter`s Best Friend A donkey being used to carry pots to the marketplace. Gyraspur, 1977 | ![Transporting of Pots](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/7146.jpg) |
![Carts of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/6218.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Light Weight Racing Cart Chakada Race Festival, Madhya Pradesh |
![](/common/left.gif) Bullock Cart Race in Progress
| ![Carts of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/6220.jpg) |
![Life on the Ocean](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/6665.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Life on the Ocean Boat workers on a mercantile boat |
![](/common/left.gif) Women Carrying Palanquin Sculpture from Uttara Kannada District | ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/6746.jpg) |
![Mass Transportation](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/6785.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Girls Being Transported in a Truck Jagadalpur Dasara Festival, 1976 |
![](/common/left.gif) A Camel Pulled Cart In the background is a Mosque, Karachi | ![Camel Pulled Cart](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/11497.jpg) |
![Prehistoric Chariot](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/7473a.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Prehistoric Chariot Illustration from a petroglyph, Madhya Pradesh |
![](/common/left.gif) Mercantile Sail Boat Non-motorized wooden sailboats known as Machwas have been used in India for transportation for centuries. | ![Machwa Sailboat](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/11018.jpg) |
![Elephant Pulled Cart](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/7792.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Elephant Pulled Chariot Illustration from Sounandhika Parinaya |
![](/common/left.gif) A Palanquin Rider Sculpture from Vidyashankar temple, Sringeri | ![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12021.jpg) |
![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12029a.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Palanquin depicted in a Bhatkal relief
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![](/common/left.gif) Palanquin Rider Notice the kulavi headgear worn both by the rider and the carriers | ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12029b.jpg) |
![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12029c.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Women Arguing in a Palanquin
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![](/common/left.gif) A palanquin depicted in a stone-print manuscript
| ![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12029d.jpg) |
![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12029e.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Palanquin from a Mahasati Stone Illustration shown a woman being carried on her way to commit the suicide of Sati. |
![](/common/left.gif) A Palanquin being carried by Women
| ![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12029f.jpg) |
![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12029g.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A Palanquin depicted in a Mysore Gesso Painting
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![](/common/left.gif) A Nobleman Riding a Palanquin Detail from a Jain Painting in Sravanabelagola | ![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12024.jpg) |
![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12025.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Two Ladies Riding a Palanquin Detail from Krishnaparijata folk painting |
![](/common/left.gif) Maithili Folk Painting Depicting a Palanquin
| ![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12027.jpg) |
![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12023.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) A General Being Carried in a Boxed Palanquin A palanquin depicted in a war painting |
![](/common/left.gif) A Simple Palanquin Sculpture from the Ketapayya temple in Bhatkal. | ![The Transportation of Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12022.jpg) |
![Palanquins](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12028.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Carrying of the Madame Madhubani painting, Bihar |
![](/common/left.gif) River Dotted with Pathi Boats
| ![Water Transport](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12030.jpg) |
![Hand Powered Boat](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12034.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Villages Transporting their Produce in a Boat
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![](/common/left.gif) Five Fishermen and a Boat
| ![Water Transport](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12035.jpg) |
![Water Transport](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12046.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Boatmen Waiting for Customers
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![](/common/left.gif) "Bring On the Bullocks!" A daughter of a farmer posing on a bullock cart | ![](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/2887.jpg) |
![Men Carryying a Palki](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/19245.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Devotees Carrying a Palanquin of Lord Venkatesh Car Street, Honavar |
![](/common/left.gif) Woman Rides a Cart Pulled by a Bird! Detail from a temple sculpture, Bhatkal, 16th century A.D. | ![Bird Powered Cart](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/21513.jpg) |
![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/low_res_47.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) The Green Train Railway Museum, Delhi, India |
![](/common/left.gif) WG 2-8-2, Varanasi, India
| ![Steam Engines of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/low_res_16.jpg) |
![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/low_res_48.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Class WP 4-6-2, Itarasi
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![](/common/left.gif) National Railway Museum New Delhi, India | ![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/low_res_49.jpg) |
![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/low_res_50.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) National Railway Museum New Delhi |
![](/common/left.gif) A Steam Engine National Railway Museum, Delhi, India | ![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/low_res_51.jpg) |
![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/low_res_52.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) National Railway Museum
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![](/common/left.gif) Horse Pulled Taxi Known as tongas, horse pulled taxis were a popular mode of transport during the 20th century India | ![Picture of a Tonga and Driver](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/12056.jpg) |
![Carts of India](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/klk567.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Chakada (Light-weight Cart) Line drawing by K.L.Kamat |
![](/common/left.gif) Light-wight Racing Chakada Cart
| ![Racing Cart](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/klk584.jpg) |
![Konkan Railway](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/s140.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) First Day Cover in Honor of Konkan Railway
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![](/common/left.gif) Hundred Years of Railways to Doon Valley Detail from an Indian postage | ![Dehradoon Express](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/s143.jpg) |
![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/s186.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Hundred Years of Kalka-Shimla Railway Detail from Indian postal stamp |
![](/common/left.gif) Centenary of Indian Railways
| ![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/s203.jpg) |
![Train Signal](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/13049.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Old Fashioned Railway Signal Konkan Railway, 2005 |
![](/common/left.gif) The Auto-rickshaw Three wheleer auto-rickshaws are quite popular in towns and cities of India | ![Rickshaw with an Engine](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/13245.jpg) |
![Wooden Palanquin](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/13597.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Royal Palanquin A palanquin belonging to the ruler of Mysore |
![](/common/left.gif) Palanquin Ride for the Prince
| ![The Royal Ride](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/sp_66.jpg) |
![Indian Railways](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/42100.jpg) | ![](/common/right.gif) Logo of the Indian Railways Detail from a train car |
![](/common/left.gif) Palanquin (Palki) Carriers Detail from Rangoli art | ![Palki Carriers](http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/stubs/clip601.jpg) |