shigram

“The carriage, of course, was "a rattle-trap vehicle" called a shigram - the sarcasm unmistakable in the use of a word that meant 'swift'.”

The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage

“The two sturdy oxen trotted along at a good pace in obedience to the driver's goad, and the shigram rattled across Bombay Green, past the church and the whitewashed houses of the English merchants, their oyster-shell windows already lit up; and in some forty-five minutes entered a long avenue leading to Mr. Bourchier's country house.”

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India

“Turning away he hurried out past the tank house on to the Green, and by good luck found an empty shigram {carriage like a palanquin on wheels} waiting to be hired.”

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India

“But I should prefer a _shigram_, if it only had a better name, "replied she.”

Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East