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Photograph of Rajpoots from Delhi in India, taken by Shepherd and
Robertson in c. 1863. This image of a group of four men, armed with
shields, swords and muskets, is reproduced as illustration no. 199 in
volume IV of John Forbes Watson's The People of India (1869). The
accompanying text states, "The group photograph shows a party of Chohan
soldiers armed in the native manner. The figure on the right has a broad
shield at his back, which is slung over his left shoulder, and can be
disengaged in a moment. It may be of rhinocerous hide, or of raw bullock
or buffalo hide, pounded and cast, as it were, in a mould, which is
nearly as strong. The central figure is a matchlock man; the other two
ordinary swordsmen. Every Rajpoot is a master of his weapons, and most
of them perform daily gymnastic exercises, of a difficult and arduous
character, to an advanced period of life."
Rajpoots from Delhi in India, taken by Shepherd and Robertson in c. 1863. This image of a group of four men, armed with shields, swords and muskets
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