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Book Review
Precious Indian Weapons and Other Princely Accoutrements. By Salam Kaoukji; Rajput Arms & Armour: The Rathores & Their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort. By Robert Elgood
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 880-882
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Reviewer:
Bijl, Arthur (Bijl, Arthur)
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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. | :
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).