TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jean Deloche
AB  - This 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.
DO  - 10.4000/books.ifp.726
ID  - OAPEN ID: 47442
KW  - carriage
KW  - road
KW  - cart
KW  - wheeled vehicle
L1  - http://books.openedition.org/ifp/726
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/44023
PB  - Institut Français de Pondichéry
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9791036544484
TI  - Contribution to the History of the Wheeled Vehicle in Indianull
ER  - 
