I know this will sound a little off, but bugger it: you have got to get him on here, so I (and probably many others) can bombard him with jezail-related questions!
On a more seriously related note, it seems fairly likely that "pulwar" may be a corruption of the original Indian "tulwar", either a local variation (what with the subcontinent being so damn vast and all, not too difficult to find literally dozens of variants on even such a relatively simple word) or one resulting from mistaken transcription by Europeans. One is inclined to speculate about the origin of the name "Calcutta", compared to the modern "Kolkata", for example; it seems likely that, if this name were in use upon the arrival of the first Britons, many of them fairly high up the social ladder, the Indian "Kolkata" might sound, to them, not unlike "Calcutta".
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