I don’t know if halab or halat is know to others than the Sikh’s and the Sindies, but I doubt it very much, or it would have been used more in the different books, and Jaiwant Paul mentions these two groups especially, which he would hardly have done, had the name been used over a bigger area.
You must also remember, that weapons found in armouries, like the one in Bikaner in Rajasthan, could very well have been made in Deccan or somewhere else, as they constantly had wars going on, and as the winner looted the looser there were a very big mixture of different weapons in the different armouries. Another ting is, that the Mogul rulers had several armies, one with mostly Muslims, on with mostly Hindus and one or two more, so when they were fighting the Persian king the Mogul ruler would use the Hindu army, but when he was fighting Hindu rulers he would use his Muslim army, to make sure the army would not suddenly turn against him.
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