Definition of "jampan" []

• A kind of sedan chair used in India. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Now there were no friends before me, and no one to turn to except the Khyberie thug Jassa and our gaggle of bearers - they were there chiefly because Broadfoot had said I should enter Lahore in a jampan, to impress the Sikhs with my consequence."
• "But there was something stranger still: I'd just bidden farewell to Sardul's escort and my jampan, and was being conducted on foot by a yellow-clad officer of the Palace Guard, when I noticed an extraordinary figure lounging in an embrasure above the gate, swigging from an enormous tankard and barking orders at a party of Guardsmen drilling with the light guns on the wall."
• "* (* Bravo!) and the Punjabi equivalent of "Mr Chairman!", some pointing out that the Maharani had promised them fifteen rupees a month to march against the bastardised British pigs (the spectator in the jampan drew his curtain tactfully at this point) and Jawaheer was just the chap to lead them."