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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
A Late issue of the Times contained an article on Labour action songs, giving illustrations. I give below two of the chants which are, or used to be, droned out by the palki-bearers on the Simla—Bilaspur and the Dalhousie-Pathānkot road The railway and Tonga have now nearly made them a thing of the past. The palki or palanquin is carried by four bearers who shoulder the pole running through the vehicle, two men in front and two behind.
1 Sūm was described to me as the man who gives no alms.
2 Euphemism for horse-dung.