An indian khanda for comment.

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde

Ibrahim, please notice, that not all of the swords you show are firangis, some of them may be, while others may be Indian copies of European blades, but some of them are pure Indian blades.

You write "The Rajputs easily recognised in their head dress with Quoits inserted and their leader with the huge Khanda."
They are not Rajputs, they are Punjabi's of the Akali religion, all dressed in dark blue dresses.

Thank you for your comments although I did note that some of the blades were Firanji meaning there was a mixture of Khanda and Firanji...I have no idea which are Indian and which are not. The Rajput suggestion was right off the top of my head ...I have no idea how that came about... Such are the complexities of this vast subject...Below are more pictures of Akali regions warriors..
Please see http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/military-sikhs/ for a V and A detail on Akali Sikhs...