THE ROYAL COLLECTION
By Robert Elgood
Isbn 9789383098774, 30 cm, pp. 296 with 237 col. Photographs
Price : US$ 69.23 / Rs. 3700 (Free delivery in India)
About the Book :
This lavishly illustrated book brings to us the splendid collection of medieval Arms and Armour at the City Palace Museum in Jaipur. The objects include daggers,swords, lances, khanjar, shields and armour, as well as a range of accoutrements. There is also a section on Children’s Arms. Meticulously researched narratives accompany the elegant photographs, described the details of manufacture, decoration as well as the available, often intriguing history of each weapon. This is the second book in a series on the collections at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum in the Jaipur City Palace.
Contents : Contents: Foreword by Princes Diya Kumari of Jaipur. 1. Introduction. 1. Daggers. 2. Katars. 3. Swords. 4. Children’s arms. 5. Lances, spears and shields. 6. Armour. 7. Axes, Ankus, Chhadi and maces. 8. Bows and arrows. 9. Accoutrements. 10. Guns and pistols. Map. The rulers of Amber-Jaipur. Endnotes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
About the Author :
The author, Dr. Robert Elgood is a much-published expert in the field of Arms and Armour. He has a BA in Islamic History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University; and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in Indian Anthropology. He was consultant in Indian and Islamic arms at Sotheby’s London in the 1980s and Research Fellow, Eastern European, Islamic and Asian Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection 2006 – 2012. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he is also guest scholar at the Islamic Museum, Doha, and lectures at the SOAS and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Aga Khan University, and The French Institute, Cairo. He is currently working as a consultant for the Al Sabah Collection, Kuwait.
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