Subject: rebel
Culture: Moplah/Mappilla, Coorg
Setting: rebellions, Malabar Coast 19th - early 20thc
Object: guns
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Matchlock musket South Indian, Curg, possibly 18th century
South Indian muskets used forward-acting snap-matchlock mechanisms,
probably introduced by the Spanish in the 16th century." ...
