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Mehrangarh Fort
Museum in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, has a
gallery of
royal howdahs. Today,
howdahs are used
mainly for
tourist or
commercial purposes in
South East...
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Khana and
Daulat Khana. The
museum houses a
collection of palanquins,
howdahs,
royal cradles, miniatures,
musical instruments, costumes, and furniture...
- "
howdah pistol"
comes from the
howdah, a
large platform mounted on the back of an elephant. Hunters,
particularly in
British Raj India, used
howdahs as...
- The
Golden Howdah,'ಚಿನ್ನದ ಅಂಬಾರಿ'(elephant seat or
Chinnada Ambari in Kannada) is a
howdah, the
carrier mounted on the
leading elephant during the Jamboo...
- and sultans.
Howdahs continue to play a role in
modern Indian ceremonies. In
recent years, the
elephant chosen to
carry the
Golden Howdah has been contentious...
- used by Numidia, the
Ptolemies and the
military of
Carthage did not
carry howdahs or
turrets in combat,
perhaps owing to the
physical weakness of the species...
-
procession and
carried the idol of
goddess Chamundeshwari on the
fabled Golden Howdah thirteen times between 1999 and 2011.
Balarama was a bull born
about 1958...
- on 23
December 1912, when a
homemade bomb was
thrown into the Viceroy's
howdah as the
ceremonial procession was
moving through the
Chandni Chowk suburb...
-
gatehouse has m****ive doors,
large enough to
admit elephants out****ed with
howdahs (seating canopies). To
discourage elephants charging the gates, each pane...
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warfare against fortified cities,
where they
probably carried turrets or
howdahs and were used as
shooting platforms.
According to Procopius,
emperor Justinian...
