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| Keywords: Chattri and Paliyas, Than, Kathiawar, Gujarat, India.jpg en Photograph of a group of paliyas memorial stones with a tiered pavilion chattri behind at Than in Gujarat taken by James Burgess around 1874 In the 'Report on the Antiquities of Kathiawad and Kachh of 1874-75' Burgess wrote Throughout the country and in Kachh the custom long prevailed of erecting a stone called a Paliya to the memory of those who died a violent death but in more recent times it seems to have become common also to those who died from natural causes Like grave-stones in other countries they are of very varied workmanship from the plain stone with a rude symbol above and the name date and mode of death to the moulded stone surmounted by a figure of the deceased mounted on a horse or camel These paliyas are sometimes erected on raised on raised platforms and in rarer cases they are covered by a pavilion or chattri 1874 http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/c/019pho0001000s4u00364000 html Burgess James other versions PD-old-70-1923 Paliya | ||||
