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Arms and Armour at the Jaipur Court

Arms and Armour at the Jaipur Court

The Royal Collection

by Robert Elgood
Hardback
Publication Date: 18/03/2016

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The book has a selection of 186 of the most interesting arms in the Jaipur royal palace and discusses them as weapons in their social and historical context. The book breaks new ground in Indian arms scholarship and is also a very readable account that takes in Rajput, Mughal and British Indian history, anthropology and art history. The objects are stunning: swords belonging to the Mughal Emperors Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb; wonderful court daggers with hilts of carved rock crystal, jade, ivory and gilt steel; ferocious tribal arms; some remarkable historic firearms and beautiful painted shields, some of which were decorated in Japan for the Mughal court. There is even a device for extracting arrows from wounds with toe-curling ancient medical remedies. Most of these arms are from the reserve collections and published for the first time.

Contents: Foreword by Princess Diya Kumari of Jaipur; Acknowledgements; Cataloguing terms; Introduction; Daggers; Katars; Swords; Children's Arms; Lances, Spears and Shields; Armour; Axes, Ankus, Chhadi and Maces; Bows and Arrows; Accoutrements; Guns and Pistols; Map; The Rulers of Amber - Jaipur; Endnotes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

ISBN:
9789383098774
9789383098774
Category:
Militaria
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
18-03-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Niyogi Books
Country of origin:
India
Dimensions (mm):
311.4x247.4x26.42mm
Weight:
1.95kg

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