A gharry, gharri, or gari (, "cart, carriage, truck, car") is a horse-drawn cab in

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

n and Burmese contexts. A palkigari () is shaped like an Indian

litter Litter consists of waste products that have been discarded incorrectly, without consent, at an unsuitable location. The waste is objects, often man-made, such as aluminum cans, paper cups, food wrappers, cardboard boxes or plastic bottles, but ...

(palanquin). A fleet of them were maintained along the main post roads of

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...

from the 1840s. A gharry driver is a gharry-

wallah , , , or (Hindi: )( fem. ), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi. Originating from Sanskrit पाल (pāla) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), it forms an adjectival compound from ...

. Pyin U Lwin Myanmar.jpg, A gharry in Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar (2004) Weeks Edwin Lord An Indian Gharry.jpg, A gharry in British India Horse carriage on a small bridge, probably from Madras (c. 1870s).jpg, A palkigari in British India, c. 1870

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