The UK Launch of Rajput Arms and Armour: The Rathores and Their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort
Автор: Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Загружено: 2018-03-20
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This catalogue of Jodhpur Fort armoury reclaims the Hindu contribution to Indian military culture in the Mughal period. From the sixteenth century, Rajputs rulers married their daughters to the Mughal emperors and were crucial allies of the dynasty but though they adopted Persian culture they retained their own warrior tradition with its roots in Vedic practice. The Rajputs worshipped violent goddesses who required blood sacrifices and alcohol. These warriors (Kshatriya) took prodigious amounts of opium and deliberately sacrificed themselves to the goddess on the battlefield in order to gain warrior Heaven. Believing it was disgraceful for a warrior to die in bed of natural causes, old men, survivors of countless battles, would send word to their enemies to meet them and, after politely sharing a drink, would hack each other to death.
Speaker:
Robert Elgood has a BA in Islamic History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University (where he is now a Research Associate) and a DPhil from Oxford University in Indian Anthropology.
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