| ISBN |
9389136598 (hardcover) |
| 9789389136593 (hardcover) |
| Author |
Elgood, Robert |
| Title |
The Maharaja of Jodhpur's guns / Robert Elgood |
| Publisher |
Jodhpur : Mehrangarh Museum Trust, New Delhi : Niyogi Books, 2020 |
| Physical desc. |
367 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps ; 32 cm. |
| Note |
In slip case. |
| CB illustrations: page [66] (In 63.4); page 74 (In 11A.4); page [76] (In 07B.28); pages 256-257 (In 11A.28); page 259 (In 11A.27). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-361) and index. |
| Contents |
The invention of gunpowder weapons and their arrival in medieval India -- Matchlock guns with revolving mechanisms in the Portuguese eastern empire: a brief history of early revolving guns -- The Indian matchlock -- Catalogue. Lamchar -- Swivel guns or shuturnal -- Seventeenth- eighteenth- and nineteenth-century banduk -- The Sindhi jezail -- Sindhi jesails with large stocks -- Smaller Sindhi stocks -- Baluchistan matchlock -- Matchlock barrels -- Indian blunderbusses -- Matchlock pistols and combination weapons -- Powder flasks -- Miniature cannon -- British military guns -- European civilian guns -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American pistols -- Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century air pistols -- Advances in sporting guns in India in the nineteenth century -- Hunting with spear and gun in Rajasthan. Pig-sticking -- Shooting -- Pages transcribed from the 1926 hunting diary of H.H. Maharaja Umaid Singhji -- Catalogue: Maharaja Umaid Singhji's sporting guns -- Experimental guns made in Mehrangarh under the direction of Maharaja Hanwant Singhji -- Appendices. A note by the late Claude Blair FSA regarding tromba -- Selected entries from the inventories of the Mehrangarh Silekhana. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07B |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 11A |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 63 |
| Firearms -- India -- Jodhpur -- Catalogs |
| Firearms -- India -- Jodhpur -- Pictorial works |
| Weapons -- India -- Jodhpur -- Catalogs |
| Weapons -- India -- Jodhpur -- Pictorial works |
| Ordnance -- India -- Jodhpur -- Catalogs |
| Ordnance -- India -- Jodhpur -- Pictorial works |
| Matchlocks (Firearms) -- India |
| Rajput (Indic people) -- India -- Jodhpur -- History |
| Rajput painting -- India -- Jodhpur |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire -- Themes, motives |
| Firearms in art |
| Jodhpur (India) -- Kings and rulers |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Mehrangarh Museum Trust (Jodhpur, India) |
