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In 1972 H.H. Maharaja Gaj Singhji, of Jodhpur-Marwar transformed the Rathore’s magnificent Mehrangarh Fort into a highly successful Rajput museum and cultural center. As part of this work, the Mehrangarh Museum Trust commissioned this book.<\/div>\n
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The author discusses the worldwide medieval diffusion of firearms technology and Arab, Ottoman, European and Chinese influences on the development of Indian firearms. Jodhpur was one of the most important military states in Rajasthan, playing a major role in the history of the subcontinent, never more so than during the reign of Maharaja Ajit Singhji (1678–1724) who purchased large numbers of guns when his daughter married the Mughal emperor. Jodhpur owns the best Indian matchlocks in the subcontinent, much admired at the Delhi Durbar in 1911.<\/div>\n
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Successive maharajas have added to the collection, which includes modern British and American sporting guns, shotguns, revolvers and automatic pistols by many of the great makers of the twentieth century, collected by the Maharaja’s grandfather, a noted hunter, and his father, a gun designer.<\/div>\n
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The Maharaja of Jodhpur’s Guns<\/i><\/b> is the first book to be written specifically on historic Indian firearms. With more than 350 unique images of guns and Rajput paintings from private collections showing their use, this book offers scholars and collectors the opportunity to see the superb Jodhpur collection and to learn about Rajput traditions relating to hunting and war.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With more than 350 unique images of guns and Rajput paintings from private collections showing their use, this book offers scholars and collectors the opportunity to see the superb Jodhpur collection and to learn about Rajput traditions relating to hunting and war.
Foreword – H. H. Maharaja of Jodhpur
\nAcknowledgements
\nThe Invention of Gunpowder Weapons and Their Arrival in Medieval India
\nMatchlock Guns with Revolving Mechanisms in the Portuguese Eastern Empire
\nA Brief History of Early Revolving Guns
\nThe Indian Matchlock
\nCatalogue
\nLamchar
\nSwivel Guns or Shuturnal
\nSeventeenth- Eighteenth- And Ninteenth-Century Banduk
\nThe Sindhi Jezail
\nSindhi Jezails with Large Stocks
\nSmaller Sindhi Stocks
\nBaluchistan Matchlock
\nMatchlock Barrels
\nIndian Blunderbusses
\nMatchlock Pistols and Combination Weapons
\nPowder Flasks
\nMiniature Cannon
\nBritish Military Guns
\nEuropean Civilian Guns
\nNineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European and American Pistols
\nLate Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Air Pistols
\nAdvances in Sporting Guns in India in the Nineteenth Century
\nHunting with Spear and Gun in Rajasthan
\nPig-sticking
\nShooting
\nPages transcribed from the 1926 hunting diary of H.H. Maharaja Umaid Singhji
\nCatalogue – Maharaja Umaid Singhji’s Sporting Guns
\nEXPERIMENTAL GUNS MADE IN MEHRANGARH UNDER THE DIRECTION
\nOF MAHARAJA HANWANT SINGHJI
\nAppendices
\nA Note by the Late Claude Blair FSA Regarding Tromba
\nSelected Entries from the Inventories of the Mehrangarh Silekhana
\nGlossary
\nEndnotes
\nBibliography
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21583],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17228","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-history","7":"author-by-author-robert-elgood","8":"publisher-niyogi-books","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-maharaja-of-jodhpurs-guns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With more than 350 unique images of guns and Rajput paintings from private collections showing their use, this book offers scholars and collectors the opportunity to see the superb Jodhpur collection and to learn about Rajput traditions relating to hunting and war.Foreword - H. 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