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>>1769 Mysore soldier
Subject: soldier
Culture: Kannada
Setting: Mysore sultanate, south India late 18thc
Evolution1520 Vijayanagara ravuttan 1617 Nayaka cavalry > 1769 Mysore soldier




Context (Event Photos, Primary Sources, Secondary Sources, Field Notes)

* Schmidt 1995 p62
"Until the second half of the eighteenth century, Mysore was an independent Hindu kingdom.  In 1761, Haidar Ali, a Muslim mercenary in the service of the dalwai or chief minister of Mysore, usurped the throne, and became ruler.  Haidar Ali sought to extend the territorial limits of his new kingdom, but his designs threatened the Marathas, the nizam of Hyderabad, and the territorial expansion of the British.
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Guns

* Stone 1934 p152
"BUKMAR.  A musquetoon with a bell mouth, tiger pattern, India."

* Elgood 1995 p
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Armor

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Saber

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Katar

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Dagger

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