Bullock cart

"Beautiful womenfolk wave at you from flower-bedecked cottage doors, while gaily painted bullock carts creak about the place."

"Bullock-Cart theology is a call to mutuality — first world Adventism must realize, as we do, that in some places the bullock-cart is the most efficient means of transport there is. The best vessel to proclaim The Three Angels’ messages in Asia is the life that is truly Adventist and truly Asian."

"In stark practice, trudging round on foot or trundling in a bullock cart, Gandhi came where ordinary people lived, and talked about their concerns in the language they understood. P.68"

"In the Indus Valley culture slow moving bullock carts were also common because many models of such a cart have been found. It is significant to note that there is very little difference between the bullock cart of today and that of the Indus Valley culture. Even today the same kind of bullock cart plies in Sindh as 4000 years back."

"Feroze Gandhi also laid stress on the encouragement to be given to the bullock carts for transportation of goods. He said that, even in the atomic age, bullock carts are useful as a means of transport. There were more than one crore bullock carts and they carried more than the railways did. … bullock cart covered 17.5 miles in 15 hours."

"Ten million refugees were on the move, on foot, on bullock cart, and by train, sometimes traveling under army escort and other times trusting to fate and their respective gods. Jawaharlal Nehru flew over one refugee convoy which comprised 100,000 people and stretched for ten miles."

"Our leading men traveled throughout India on foot or through bullock carts...By contrasting the railways with the bullock-carts Gandhi drives home the point that speed by itself is not a value to be cherished."

"The next scene, one of the funniest in the play, depicts Jaka Karewets ride to town in a bullock cart, along with a group of other passengers. The cart is depicted by a wooden bench, on which the driver, whip in hand, sits astride at one end, while passengers sit sideways behind him in a row."

"Kim marked down a gaily ornamented ruth or family bullock cart, with a broidered canopy of two domes, like a double humped camel, which had just been drawn into the par. Eight men made its retinue and two of eight were armed with rusty sabres, sure signs they followed a person of distinction, for the common folk do not bear arms."

"Animal drawn carts, especially bullock carts, are the oldest mode of transportation, existing in India and in few other countries since the past unknown. About 15 million bullock carts exist in India. Statistic shows that number of bullock carts has not reduced in last 30 years, belying the popular concept that bullock carts will disappear with the development of society. Reasons are many. The fact is that still in India, bullock carts are the most important mode of transportation in many parts of rural India. Unfortunately, the technology of the carts has not been improved. The conventional bullock carts are made of wooden wheels and bamboo/wooden load carrier (known as platform). More than 80% bullock carts are of conventional type. Only a few number of carts has been partially converted to metallic (which can not be termed as ‘improved’). As this mode of transportation will exist in India, there is need for the improvement of the technology."

"Product design needs to reflect the challenges of the local environment and the demands of the local culture and religion. When youre looking for creative solutions to these needs, sometimes a bullock cart is better than an automobile."

"The fifth day closed with a procession to the brook Almo, in which the sacred stone of the Goddess and her bullock cart were bathed as a rain-charm. On the return the cart was strewn with flowers."