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  • Neolithic Cartography and Trade Routes in South Western Coastal Maharashtra, India 
    Rane- Kothare, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Following research paper deals with discovery of new evidences in Western Maharashtra by the author Anita Rane-Kothare of Maps engraved on hillocks, indicating trade routes towards the Deccan plateau from the Neolithic ...
  • An Odyssey of Indian Railways through Cinematic Lens 
    Condra, R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Cinema is related to trains from the time of its inception. Both inventions brought world closer and introduced newer aspects of modern world to mankind. They are more than century old and have heritage status. Trains shown ...
  • Pack Animals for Transportation 
    Kothalawala, C. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Pack Animals such as camels, goats, elephants, mules, donkeys, horses and yaks are used by humans to transport goods, humans, etc. All the weight bears on pack animals’ back. In ancient time, animals such as camels, goats, ...
  • PALANQUIN : The symbol of Royalty and luxury of ancient Assam: Special reference to wedding rituals and bearers profession 
    Gogoi, H.D.; Goswami, G. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Palanquin was a means of land transport which is especially used in eastern Asia as well as in Assam usually for one person that consists of an enclosed box-like litter borne on the shoulders of men by means of poles. It ...
  • Palanquin – the wheel-less luxury cart 
    Chakrabarti, M. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    A palanquin, also called palki, is a covered sedan chair on four shafts carried by two, four or more men (Kaahar). Palkis have been mentioned in the Indian epics. A beautifully decorated and covered cart protected its ...
  • Paths, Places and Voids: some thoughts on a prehistoric symbolic representation recovered from a cave in Sabaragamuva Province, Sri Lanka 
    Somadeva1, R.; Wanninayake, A.; Devage, D.; Ambalampitiya, J; Fernando, R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Symbolism is one of the major cognitive advances that had been prominently developed by anatomically modern humans. It involved a complex web of biological, ecological and social qualifiers acquired through the evolutionary ...
  • Pilgrimage - Amalgamating Humanity with Divinity 
    Badikillaya, G.U. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    This paper is an attempt to understand how the Buddhist pilgrimage centres in India came into existence, who started the trail, what motivated devotees to undertake such travels, the route charting and its spread from the ...
  • Preservation of Railways Heritage in Pakistan 
    Haider, S.M.; Batool, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The history of Pakistan Railways is rooted in the North Western Railways established in 1884, following amalgamation of the Punjab, Scinde and the Delhi Railways dating back to 1850s. The railways landscape in the country, ...
  • Promoting Railway Tourism in Si Lanka 
    Rathnayake, S.; Rathnayake, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Accessibility is one of the main components in tourism destination. Traveling by train is a famous accessibility method of the tourism industry. Railway tourism or train tourism is not a new concept. It dates back to late ...
  • Railway Expansion in Central Provinces (Middle India) during colonial Period 
    Koreti, S.I. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Transport is an important infrastructure indispensable for the development process of a country. Without proper means of transport and communications it may not be possible for any government to administer a vast country ...
  • Railway to the Sacred City and Pilgrims from the South: This presentation envisages the connection between building railways and pilgrimage to Anuradhapura 
    de Zoysa, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    From a larger research on the “Rediscovery of Anuradhapura” by the British Orientalists and its elevation from a “Buried City” to a “Holy City”, I wish to present how modern transport enhanced pilgrims to visit Anuradhapura ...
  • Relic Shrines Pilgrimage 
    Kumar, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    In the South Asian world, the first and second centuries CE gives a new dimension to Buddhism and its pilgrimage with the rise of Buddha image in human form. Whether the image originated in Mathura school of Art or Gandhara ...
  • Religion on the Road in Secular India: Production of Liminality, Hostility and Hospitality in Public Places 
    Ponniah, J. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Though India is a secular country, Indian secularism, unlike its European version, is neither anti-religion nor religion-neutral. Rather it believes in the equal treatment of all religions and accommodates the religious ...
  • Restoring the Asian Silk Route: Its Transportation and Importance 
    Varija, V.; Ramabrahmam, V. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The Silk Roads were an interconnected web of routes linking the ancient societies of East, South, Central, and Western Asia, and the Mediterranean. It contributed to the development of many of the world's great civilizations ...
  • Rickshaw Art as a means of Social Communication: Bangladesh Perspective 
    Rahman, H.; Hossain, J (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Rickshaw is a major vehicle for transportation in order to travel short distances in Bangladesh. It exhibits different artistic views and paintings that bear the messages of the famous history and culture of Bengal. Rickshaw ...
  • Road etiquette observed when passing a door at a Kadaim-doratu during the Kandian Kingdom 
    Perera, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Kandian Kingdom was divided into 12 parts and was ruled by twelve Kandian chieftains. The boundaries of these geographical areas were known as Kadaim and the door was the doratu only through which the people could pass. ...
  • Road network in Jaffna peninsula During the early 20th century 
    Vettivelautham, P. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Reaching to a place or migrating to place to place is very common feature in the human life. The passage for human needs had caused gradually to find the route system in the past. The culture and civilizations were developed ...
  • Road to Jaffna –Road to Reconciliation in Sri Lanka 
    Thalpawila, O.N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    As a result of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the entire road network and many bridges in the Northern and the Eastern provinces had been destroyed or rendered practically unusable due to armed attacks and negligence of ...
  • The Road to Kandy: A bibliographical and historical study of Colonial and Post-Colonial accounts 
    Dehigama, K. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    A considerable body of literature highlights that the survival of Kandyan Kingdom from western invasion was mainly caused by geographical barriers and ancient travel rules and procedures practiced. Thus, the construction ...
  • The Role of the Ox As a Local Mode of Traditional Transport (An Investigation through folksongs) 
    Perera, A.L.N.P. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    One of the milestones and landmarks of human evolution is the domestication of animals. The significant feature of this process which began some 1500 years ago was that the ox which was tamed and domesticated has been of ...

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