Subject: ahadi 'single' heavy cavalryman
Culture: Mughal
Setting: Great Mughal empire, Hindustan/Deccan late 16th-early 18thc
Object: khanda, firangi sword
* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Sword (khanda) Indian, Mughal, dated 1042 AH (1632/3) With a classic 'Indo-Muslim' hilt with a large, flat disk pommel,
decorated with floral ornamentation in fine gold koftgari. The blade is inscribed on the back NABITA [?] KHAN JAHAN BAHADUR."
* Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery
"Sword (firanghi) with old Indian basket hilt. Central Indian, European blade, 17th century .... from the collection of Sir Conan Doyle."
* PH Artis
