Rajputs loved guns but hated using them in war: Historian Robert Elgood on his new book on Jodhpur guns
Rajputs loved guns but hated using them in war: Historian Robert Elgood on his new book on Jodhpur guns
Guns, says Elgood, have played a significant role in shaping India’s national identity, or for that matter, that of any country. Updated: December 22, 2020 10:14:13 pm
The coffee table book contains some 350-odd images of the extraordinary gun collection that the Jodhpur state holds, along with Rajput paintings that speak of their use.
In his autobiography, as Mahatma Gandhi urged Indians to join Britain’s First World War efforts, he made a scathing attack against a particular law brought in by the British government during the latter half of the 19th century. The Indian Arms Act of 1878, he wrote, was “among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India.”