0 a structure formerly used in East Asia for transporting one person. It consists of a box that is carried by four or six people by means of two long poles. --
A palkee gharry is shaped somewhat like a palanquin.
The party then reached the courtyard of the palanquin-bearers.
Hence, nobody outside the royal families noticed that their chiefs were interred in substitute palanquins.
They were traditionally a community of palanquin bearers, an occupation no longer practiced by the community.
The premise of the television series is that he refused to ride in the palanquin.
This museum houses a collection of palanquins, howdahs, royal cradles, miniatures, musical instruments, costumes and furniture.
This was historically a landless community, traditionally associated with fishing, water carrying and palanquin bearing.
The king agreed and the first few palanquins had women and children.
