The Manuscript is indeed very rare and the attempt of Dr.G.N.Pant the renewed Scholar of Indian arms and armour is still rare. Dr.Pant has successfully tried to take out all variants of early mughal weapons as depicted therein, and corroborate them with existing examples and thus present a very comprehensive picture.
The Book is profusely illustrated with more that three hundred line drawings, fifty black and white photographs and twenty color photos all based on the National Museum Manuscript.
The Book is the product of decades of dedicated study, meticulous research and vast experience and is ordained to prove a landmark in the armeology of India.
Dr. Pant's first book Indian Weapons was published in 1966 and the second, studies in the defense history Bibliography in 1970. The gigantic work studies in Indian weapons and warfare, published in 1970, fetch him the president of India's Acclaim and his Bhartiya Astrasastra won for him. Acharya Narendra Dev Special Award. His other notable publications are Indians Arms & Armor in three volumes, Indian Archery (1980), Indian Shield (1982), Catalogue of Indians Arms in the Hamuragies Museum, West Germany (1984) Catalogue Arms in the Janagadh Museum Gujarat (1984), etc. A Number of Monographs are in press.
Dr. Pant has prepared half a dozen catalogues of arms and armor and has studied the collection of almost all the Indian Museums He has traveled US.S.R., UK., Africa, etc., and studied the oriental arms preserved there.
Dr. Pant is the member of Archer Antiquaries', London:
**Contents and Sample Pages**
Hindu (887)
Agriculture (93)
Ancient (1022)
Archaeology (615)
Architecture (535)
Art & Culture (865)
Biography (598)
Buddhist (545)
Cookery (158)
Emperor & Queen (497)
Islam (235)
Jainism (274)
Literary (876)
Mahatma Gandhi (360)
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