Prior to 1947, veiled women came in palanquins to attend classes.
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Eager vendors were inclined to thrust books into carriages and palanquins upside down.
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Thepalanquinin the foreground reinforces the theme of travel and trade.
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It is almost as if thepalanquinwere waiting for the viewer, about to take him to the docks.
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For and entire week the city celebrates the arrival of hundreds of local deities on elaborately decorated palanquins.
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He enters on apalanquinaccompanied by a parade of people singing and drumming.
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Processions and martial arts are also performed before thepalanquin.
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The king agreed and the first few palanquins had women and children.
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This was historically a landless community, traditionally associated with fishing, water carrying andpalanquinbearing.
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This museum houses a collection of palanquins, howdahs, royal cradles, miniatures, musical instruments, costumes and furniture.
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The premise of the television series is that he refused to ride in thepalanquin.
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They were traditionally a community ofpalanquinbearers, an occupation no longer practiced by the community.
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Hence, nobody outside the royal families noticed that their chiefs were interred in substitute palanquins.
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The party then reached the courtyard of thepalanquin-bearers.
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A palkee gharry is shaped somewhat like apalanquin.
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