Hi all,
Glad to hear that you visited some really good museums..!!
there are many more with great variety of weapons and as you rightly pointed out there are many private collections.
G. N. Pant has made a catalogue of the following:
1. Armours in the National Museum Delhi.
2. Shields in the National Museum Dehli.
3. The catalogue of Edged Arms and Armour in Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad.
4. The Arms and Armour in the Bharat Kala Bhawan Delhi.
5. The Arms and Armour in the Durbar Hall Museum Junagadh.
For the benefit of member visiting India i'll list out a few museums that are a must watch for weapons.
1. Government Museum, Chennai. (Formerly known as Madras)
2. Chatrapati Shivaji Museum, Mumbai (Formerly the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay)
3. The Fatehsinh Museum (old Palace) Akkalkot, Maharashtra Karnataka border. (this is a not very well know museum but has an amazing collection of more than 4000 weapons of all kinds)
4. Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad. (great collection of all sorts for all tastes)
5. The Phalaknuma Palace Museum of Hyderabad.
6. The State Museum of Hyderabad.
7. Armories of Bikaner, Udaipur, Jaipur.
8. Junagadh Museum, Junagad Gujarat.
9. The Gol Gumbuz Museum, Bijapur, Karnataka (a small but nice collection especially for cannons)
10. The Parinda Fort, Karnataka (For mammoth Cannons and Cannon Balls only)
11. The BDL Museum, Mumbai (a very small but respectable collection)
12. The Mysore Palace Museum.
13. The Government Museum, Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
14. The New palace Museum, Kolhapur, Maharashtra (more than 4000 weapons)
15. Collection of ancestral hierlooms of the princes of Baroda, Gwalior, Tanjore, Mysore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Samode etc.
16. The Golden Temple Museum, Amritsar and the adjoining places of worship of Sikh Religion.
All these places are a great confluence of weapons belonging to the Indo Persian category and guns and cannons of various types.
Weapons are revered greatly by the warrior clans of Rajputs, Sikhs and Marathas and are still worshipped in traditional societies and are carried on ceremonial occassions.
Regards,
Bhushan
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