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A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour

1896

The weight of evidence seems to be in favour of the fact that the Bhils and Bhars presumably Kolarlans have lost their language and adopted Hindi.—Robert Cust Lanotages of the East Indies " p. 10."5 desirable to introduce the Catalogue by a brief sketch of the military history of India with the view of showing how the English have been succec:sively brought in contact with the various races w [...] The fact that...the India Museum is the property of the Government of India inherited from the East India Company while the Indian arms at the Tower—mainly presented by the East India Company—are the property of the Crown should not prevent a partial amalgamation of the two collections. [...] The courtesy of the War Department has permitted the temporary exhibition of a few of the arms from the Tower in the India Museum. [...] The Mahabharata describes the wars of the two branches of the reigning family of Hastinapura the Pandavas and the Kauravas. [...] The Princess henceforth follows the fortunes of the brothers and by a strange ancient custom lives with them in common.2 " The honourable position accorded to the profession of arms at an early period is shown by the fact that the Kshatriyas or Rajputs in the Vedic period were the dominant race and subsequently stood next in the scale of caste to the Brahmins or priests ; they originally enj
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Pages
206
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146130
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
iv-viii Egerton view
Preface to New Edition
1-1 Egerton view
Note on the Transliteration and Spelling of Tivdian Words. By Colonel Yule C.B.
2-2 H. Yule view
Introduction
3-i W. Egerton view
A Sketch of the Military History of India
7-44 Egerton view
Descriptive Catalogue of Indian Arms with Introductory Notes on Styles of Decoration Processes of Manufacture and Ethnological Characteristics
45-159 Egerton view
Collection of Oriental Armour and Weapons
160-169 Egerton view
Index
170-178 Egerton view

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