Hunting Tulwar (Tulwar Shikargah)

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Cathey

... I think the next avenue to explore will be the history of hunting in the East rather than simply relying on available arms and armour related texts.

This will certainly be an interesting area to dedicate some research to and I have been told by a far more experienced collector in this field that this has not been attempted in any detail previously and his view is that it is a gap that should be addressed....

Will this one be useful ?

http://thelastwilderness.org/wp-cont...a-Chimalgi.pdf


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[Norman McCormick]

Hi,
A relevant passage from the article that Fernando highlighted.

"The hunt was masterminded by a group of local hunters called ‘shikharis’, which was headed by a ‘mir shikaran’ or the head shikari."

An Indian painting 19thc.

An Indian steel bow.

Regards,
Norman.