palanquin

The slim figure was carried by four bearers on a palanquin, while the company’s actors animated its arms and billowing skirts from the sides.

The slim figure was carried by four bearers on a palanquin, while the company’s actors animated its arms and billowing skirts from the sides.

During the dozen and a half times each year they do go out, for rituals or during Nepali Hindus’ festival season, they must be carried, either in a palanquin or in someone’s arms.

Ms Kuckreja, who set up Vanangana, a charity that has been working with battered women for a quarter of a century in in northern India's Bundelkhand - one of the poorest regions in the country - says a popular piece of advice given to new brides translates to "you are entering your marital home in a palanquin, you must only leave on your funeral bier".

Towards the other end of the painting, his cavalry is attacking Company forces on both sides as they form a square around an injured Bailie, who is in a palanquin.