Talk:Tanga (cart)

Hindi & Urdu

I looked them up just to make sure, and both my Hindi and Urdu dictionaries gave these respective entries:

ताँगा, tāṁgā & تانگا tāṅgā. The one's given may be regional, or variants? (I can imagine the Urdu also ending in -ah and the Hindi can be written with a simple bindi instead of the candrabindu) The Punjabi is ਤਾਂਗਾ (same as Hindi), and the Bengali, I believe, is টাঙ্গা ṭāṅgā, the only one I found which is retroflex ṭa. But my main knowledge is in Hindi and Urdu, so take the Bangla with a grain of salt.

Also, yes, please merge. Khirad 23:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I am the one who introduced "Tangah" to Wikipedia. I saw the other version, "Tanga", it is OK to merge them appropriately. A good picture with detailed illustration would be great. As I am not in Pakistan right now, I cannot take that kind of picture. pashamuzaffar@yahoo.com

Two horses?

Article mentions "two horses" but images have only one. Which is it? 94.14.101.225 (talk) 18:24, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Maybe we're meant to take the images in pairs. —Tamfang (talk) 20:06, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Concur that this presents a problem. All the tanga photos on Alamy show one horse, as does every article in the Indian press that I looked at. Ray Trygstad (talk) 04:05, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Reading a book entitled "Across the Roof of the World," by P.T. Etherton, we have his first hand account (circa the first decade of the 20th century) of traveling in a tonga, where he says "A tonga is a low, two-horsed vehicle, strongly built and capable of withstanding much, always a recommendation in this land where most things suffer from rough usage."

Imagine my surprise at seeing the wiki, which instructs me instead they it is a one-horse vehicle, while simultaneously clearly supplying an image of an instance of a two-horsed horsed variety! What gives, folks?

; )

p.s. book is free in Play Books Darsno (talk) 15:29, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

He was also keen enough to provide us with a photograph of his conveyance (I discovered this upon turning the page). I don't know if or how I can share it here, but it's very cool. Darsno (talk) 18:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Darsno: I clarified the article. To answer your question, nowadays, tonga driven on streets are mainly single horses. In the past, long distance travel over rough terrain "in stages" (where horses were driven a distance, horses changed out and the vehicle continues on its route with the same passenger or goods and new horses, and the first set of horses walked back to their starting point) two horses were needed for the extent of work required of them. Keep in mind, the book you mention is from a trek that took place 115 years ago.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 07:24, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Perfect, yes. Thank you Darsno (talk) 08:20, 9 February 2024 (UTC)