A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour

Illustrated from the collection formerly in the India Office, Now Exhibited at South Kensington,

and

the Author’s Private Collection.

With a map, Twenty-Three Full-page Plates (Two Colored), and Numerous Woodcuts

with

An Introductory Sketch of the Military

History of India

by

The Right Hon. Lord Egerton of Tatton, M.A.,

1896

A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour

As the catalogue originally drawn up for the illustration of the arms at the India Museum has been to a certain extent rendered useless by the transfer of the collection to South .Kensington, yet, as neither South Kensington nor the British Museum have published a separate catalogue, and as the Handbook of Oriental Arms alludes to both those collections, it has been thought desirable to bring out a new edition, and to add a chapter on the Arab Arms, with which our campaigns in the Soudan have recently made us more fully acquainted, so as to complete the sketch o f Oriental Arms, which it was the purpose o f the author to illustrate. He also desires to place on record the catalogue o f his own collection, which contains some examples not found in either of our national collections, and which also exemplifies the great variety and richness o f design to be found in Oriental Arms. He trusts that it may lead others who have in their private collections any rare or richly-decorated Oriental Arms to take a greater interest in them, and to communicate to the author an account o f any exceptional specimens in their possession.