Rajput arms & armour : the Rathores & their armoury at Jodhpur Fort / Robert Elgood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elgood, Robert, author.

Contributor:

Mehrangarh Museum Trust (Jodhpur, India), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mehrangarh Museum Trust (Jodhpur, India)--Catalogs.

Mehrangarh Museum Trust (Jodhpur, India).

Rathor family.

Weapons--India--Jodhpur--Catalogs.

Weapons.

Armor--India--Jodhpur--Catalogs.

Armor.

Weapons--India--Jodhpur--Pictorial works.

Armor--India--Jodhpur--Pictorial works.

Rajput (Indic people).

History.

Meharānagaṛha Durga (Jodhpur, India).

Rajput (Indic people)--India--Jodhpur--History.

India--Jodhpur.

India--Jodhpur--Meharānagaṛha Durga.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Catalogs.

History.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (1023 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Rajput arms and armour

Place of Publication:

[Jodhpur] : Mehrangarh Museum Trust in association with Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2017.

Contents:

V. 1 :

The Rathores of Marwar

Introduction to Rajput arms

Arms production & trade in north-west India

Craftsmen & materials in the Jodhpur armoury

Early swords in the Jodhpur armoury

The swords of Maharaja Abhay Singh (r. 1724-49) & Maharaja Bakht Singh (r. 1750-52)

A group of weapons from the late seventeenth & first half of the eighteenth century

Miscellaneous swords in the Jodhphur armoury :

European and Indian made firangi back-swords and rapier blades

European and Indian-made broad firangi blades

Kirich blades

Susan pata, sailaba, chhura and qama blades

Talwar, tegh and goliya

Khanda blades

Shamshir, saif and qattara

Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century swords

Talwar hilts

Talpur swords from Sind

Some nineteenth & twentieth century sword hilts with dated inscriptions

Children's swords

v. 2 :

Swords of the maharajas 1843-1952

Indo-European swords in the armoury

Rajput relations with the Mughals : Khil'at & imperial Mughal swords & daggers

Swords with Mughal umbrella marks

Katars

Daggers

Ankus, chhadi & gada

Tabarzin, farsa, gandasa & zagnal

Gupti, spears, pikes & lances

Khukri, Datali, Bows, powder flasks

Armour & shields

Appendix I. Khanda marriage

Appendix II. Nasratu'llah Khan's treatise on swords

Appendix III. Selected Jodhphur armoury records

Appendix IV. Table of Rathore rajas & maharajas

Appendix V. Ballad of Sir Pertab Singh

Appendix VI. Calendars, currencies, weights & distance

General glossary

Arms glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 993-1005) and index.

ISBN:

9789385285707

938528570X

OCLC:

1002068999