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>Costume Studies
>>1685 Mughal ahadi
>>>daggers
>>>>katar
Subject: ahadi heavy cavalryman
Culture: Mughal-Rajput
Setting: Great Mughal empire, Hindustan/Deccan late 16th-early 18thc
Object: katar, jamadhar punch-dagger

Higgins Armory Museum > Scimitars to Samurai: Arms around the World *
"Jamadhar (punch dagger), 1700s  India   Steel; gold   Weight: 1 lb. 2 oz." 





Oriental Arms *
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* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Dagger and Scabbard  Steel, leather, gold  Indian, Mughal period, 17th century  
Daggers of this type were designed to deliver a punching blow.  
This is one of the few known examples that retain their embossed leather scabbards."

* Dallas Museum of Art > Owsley Gallery of South Asian Art
"Qatar  Deccan, India: 17th century  Inlaid, engraved, and gilded steel" ...
​Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Dagger (katar)  Indian, Mughal, 17th century
    Already an old weapon at the time of the mutiny,
 this dagger has seen much use and is slightly damaged." ...






​* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Dagger (katar)  South Indian, 17th century 
 South Indian katars usually have narrow blades riveted to extensions of the hilt, 
and blades with deep, multiple fullers." ...

​* Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery
"Punch dagger (katar)  Indian, Mughal, 17th century." ...






* cf.
>1509 Vijayanagara infantry dagger katar
>1674 Maratha silladar dagger katar
>1751 Rajput zamindar dagger katar
>1760 Maratha pindari dagger katar