Precious Indian Weapons and Other Princely Accoutrements. By Salam Kaoukji; Rajput Arms & Armour: The Rathores & Their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort. By Robert Elgood
Precious Indian Weapons and Other
Princely Accoutrements
By Salam Kaoukji. 504 pp. incl. 538 col. + 1 b. & w.
ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New
York, 2017), $50. ISBN 978–0–500–97081–2.
Rajput Arms & Armour: The Rathores
& Their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort
By Robert Elgood. Two vols, 1024 pp. incl. 851 col.
+ 9 b. & w. ills. (Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2017),
£200. ISBN 978–93–85285–70–7. |
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Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Goat-head knife. Mughal dominions,
c.1600–50. Hilt carved from nephrite jade,
eyes inlaid with gold and set with rubies
(at a later date?), blade of jawhar steel,
overlaid with two colours of gold, length
27.5 cm. (Photograph Muhammad Ali and
Robert Lorenzo).