Short-bladed Indo-Afghani sabers

[Mercenary]

Originally Posted by ariel

Over the past ~10 years average height of an urban Indian man was 174 cm, the rural one 161.5 cm, all-country 166 cm. 200-300 years ago they must have been shorter ( secular trend).

I apologize, I do not believe in it

Originally Posted by ariel

Indians imported horses from Arabia and Persia. Those were definitely not " donkey-sized":-).

I talked about exactly Indian horses. Not all Indians rode horses from Central Asia or especially from Arabia, such horses were very expensive.

Originally Posted by ariel

As to the configuration of infantry swords, please see H. Withers "World swords 1400-1945". Both infantry and cavalry European regulation swords were either straight or curved.

We were talking about Indian swords and in mass.