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  • Tracing the Tracks: Road, Road Culture, and Romance in the Sangam Tamilnadu 
    Vijailakshmi, U.R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Microhistory in a sense, captures the life of ordinary people during extraordinary circumstances or during macro-historical events. The purpose of this paper is to bring out the life style of the Sangam Tamils through the ...
  • Evaluations of Motor Transport law in Sri Lanka 
    Kottahachchi, K.C. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Transport was an important aspect of the day today life of the ancient Sri Lankans. Since ancient times different transport facilities were used and available for the king, higher officers and the general public too. The ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Impact of Ancient Routes on the Society in Madhya Pradesh 
    Kumar, L.; Khanday, D.A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Madya Pradesh in India is prominent due to its most significant Buddhist remains including monuments and sculptures. Since ancient times, the centers of Buddhism were approachable from all major directions. The present ...
  • Brick made arched bridges, culverts, tunnels along the Railways in 19th century Sri Lanka 
    Manatunga, S.B. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    In ancient times European Countries usually added arch shapes for their religious buildings palaces, and forts. In the first half of the 19th Century, Britain was using the arch to make roadways buildup bridges, tunnels, ...
  • Beginning and Expansion of Transport in the Human Society 
    Udayakanthi, T.G.D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Within human Social evolution, social development link with transport. Accordingly, transport means the mobilization of living and non-living goods from one place to another. The main service of a mode of transport is to ...
  • The land transportation depicted in Mahāvaṃsa and Dīpavaṃsa from 6th B.C.E to the 3rd C.E 
    Gunawardhana, N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    According to the written records like the Mahāvaṃsa and the Dīpavaṃsa history of Sri Lanka may have begun from the arrival of the prince Vijaya circa 6th B.C.E. Although the history begins from the 6th century B.C.E., the ...
  • Chumadutangi (Load Bearing Stone) and Pedestrian Transportation in Kerala, India 
    Sasidharan, A.G. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Chumadutangi (Load Bearing Stone) is a bulky stone bench like structure used for supporting the weight of head loads while transporting from one place to another. They were constructed for the comfort of the pedestrian ...
  • Wheeled Vehicle Toys of the Indus Civilization with Special Reference to Gujarat, India 
    Vasantha, R.S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Terracotta toy cart frames and wheels provide indirect evidence for the origin and development of wheeled carts based transportation in the alluvial plains of Pakistan and western India around 3500 BC. Evidences from various ...
  • 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 ...
  • Transport & the Shaping of Sri Lanka’s History 
    Kumarage, A.S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    History is shaped by diverse factors, among them the access to land, its occupation and use.Sri Lanka’s own history underlines the impact that emerging transport technology had on government, settlement and trade. Being ...
  • 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 ...
  • Trans-cultural discourse on colonial transportation viewed through German Travel records on Sri Lanka 
    Paranavitana, N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The involvement of cultural and political constructions embedded in the travel records has enabled critical awareness of the implication of travel and travel writings in colonial powers structures and it has given a new ...
  • 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 ...
  • A study on the Sri Lankan locomotive history revealed from "Yakada Yaka" 
    Ariyasinghe, D.A.G. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    In 1864, rail was introduced to Sri Lanka by the British administration as a mode of transportation to distribute coffee from the hill country to the colonial capital, Colombo. Later, even when the tea plantation transcended ...
  • Epic Bridges and Legendary Cities: Theorizing the Production of Public Space in the Peninsular South 
    Santiago, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The building of cities and the construction of bridges is a response to an ontological challenge. The challenge emerges from Space being the inevitable habitus of the social. This social imperative brings with it the ...
  • Laws, regulations and customs related to land transportation in Sri Lanka 
    Randilini, K.A.S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The paper based on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture would be mainly focused on Railways, Tramway as well as vehicles during the last century of Sri Lanka. The legislative enactments of Ceylon ...
  • Transportation of Elephants & Tuskers 
    Peiris, S.N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Elephant is the largest creature living on the land of the planet earth. There is a very long history when considering the relationship between elephant and human being. This study is based on the methods used in transporting ...
  • A glance at roadscape of principal roads from Colombo to provincial towns in the mid nineteenth century Sri Lanka 
    Manatunga, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The present study is a cursory survey on the roadscape of principal roads which have linked Colombo with provincial towns in the mid nineteenth century. There were seven principal roads from Colombo, the Capital City of ...

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