Name: On the Weapons, Army Organisation, and Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus (Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History) (en Inglés)
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Author: Gustav Oppert
ISBN: 9781108080392

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On the Weapons, Army Organisation, and Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus (Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Gustav Oppert

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

176

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781108080392

Categorías

Historia militar

On the Weapons, Army Organisation, and Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus (Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History) (en Inglés)

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The German Sanskrit philologist and teacher Gustav Oppert (1836–1908) worked for the greater part of his life in British India, as a professor in the Presidency College of Madras (now Chennai) and as a curator in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library. This 1880 book considers, 'with special reference to gunpowder and firearms', the weaponry of the Hindu armies of the Middle Ages. Oppert uses two main sources, the Nitiprakasika and the Sukraniti, the former 'up to now, utterly unknown', the latter having never been 'properly described and published'. Unfortunately, the Sukraniti is now believed to be a nineteenth-century document (though drawing on older sources), and Oppert's claim that gunpowder was being used in India in the twelfth century is probably untenable. Nevertheless, the work remains an interesting study of the size, organisation and weapons of Hindu fighting forces, from bows and arrows to elephants, as well as the more anachronistic firearms.