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maddhan1979
October 2nd, 2016, 10:41 AM
0th Lancers (Gordon's Horse), 20th Deccan Horse, 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse), 1910
Sowars of the former 'Hyderabad Contingent' Cavalry, 1910.
Watercolour by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1910.
These sowars include a mounted Jat Lance Daffadar of the 30th Lancers (Gordon's Horse), a Sikh of the 20th Deccan Horse and a Dekhani Musalman Risaldar of the 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse). These three regiments originally belonged to the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad, but during the 1903 Kitchener reforms became part of the Indian Army.
This is the original artwork for an illustration in Major G F MacMunn's 'Armies of India', published in 1911.
(c) National Army Museum, London.
NAM. 1953-02-16-1

maddhan1979
October 4th, 2016, 10:14 AM
0th Lancers (Gordon's Horse), 20th Deccan Horse, 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse), 1910
Sowars of the former 'Hyderabad Contingent' Cavalry, 1910.
Watercolour by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1910.
These sowars include a mounted Jat Lance Daffadar of the 30th Lancers (Gordon's Horse), a Sikh of the 20th Deccan Horse and a Dekhani Musalman Risaldar of the 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse). These three regiments originally belonged to the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad, but during the 1903 Kitchener reforms became part of the Indian Army.
This is the original artwork for an illustration in Major G F MacMunn's 'Armies of India', published in 1911.
(c) National Army Museum, London.
NAM. 1953-02-16-1


What we must remember is these were colonial times. So, the words used in the old/ancient documents might hold some colonial trends.

maddhan1979
October 16th, 2016, 10:13 AM
What we must remember is these were colonial times. So, the words used in the old/ancient documents might hold some colonial trends.


Here there is no "good" or "bad", associated with "colonial trends", "colonial trends", were like any other trends in the ancient life styles of countries/area's.