• ISBN13: 9789389136593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Fine Arts
• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook
• Publication Date: March 11, 2020
• Pages: 364
• Original Price: INR 4500.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 2200 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Military / General

The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns (H.B)

Robert Elgood, an expert on the historic arms of Hindu India and the Islamic world, has lectured and worked in many countries. He is the author or editor of numerous books, the major ones being Islamic Arms and Armour (1979), Arms and Armour of Arabia (1994), Firearms of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Collection, Kuwait (1995), Hindu Arms and Ritual (2004), The Arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbours in the Ottoman Period (2009), Arms and Armour at the Jaipur Court (2015) and Rajput Arms and Armour: The Rathores and their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort (2017). He has a BA from SOAS in Islamic History and a DPhil in Indian Anthropology from Oxford. He has worked at Sotheby's and the Wallace Collection and as a guest scholar or consultant at various major museums. He is an independent consultant and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, and the Society of Antiquaries. His website is: http: //www.robertelgood.co.uk.