On the Weapons, Army Organisation, And Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus, With Special Reference to Gunpowder And Firearms
The book On the Weapons, Army Organisation, And Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus, With Special Reference to Gunpowder And Firearms was written by author Oppert, Gustav Salomon, 1836-1908 Here you can read free online of On the Weapons, Army Organisation, And Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus, With Special Reference to Gunpowder And Firearms book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is On the Weapons, Army Organisation, And Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus, With Special Reference to Gunpowder And Firearms a good or bad book?
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This is succeeded by a classification of the arms used in warfare and such arms are described. Among these are mentioned firearms and a full account is given of the manu- facture of gunpowder. *^ These two subjects will be discussed at large hereafter. After the description of weapons is finished, the different modes of warring, marching, and treat- ing are gone into, and the political conduct of the king is described at length. No undue preference is given to any peculiar subject in particular..., and this, if no other proof had been forthcoming, speaks for the genuineness of the work. It is hardly imaginable that a work, which contains so many important revelations about the ancient state of the civil and military administration of India, and which is, as we have seen, often quoted by works of undisputed antiquity and genuineness — quoted too in a manner which precludes forgery, as the quotations are seldom quite literal — should have been written for the sole object of braggadocio, in order to prove to Europeans the mental superiority of the ancient Hindus by ascribing to them the original invention and manufacture both of gunpowder and firearms, and that the very object of the forgery, its raison d'etre, should have been frustrated afterwards by keeping the work so zealously secret that except to a few initiated pandits, it was totally unknown to the public !
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