caa a22 4500 388087765 CHVBK 20180307125236.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1356186300015911 doi S1356186300015911 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1356186300015911 Khan Iqtidar Alam Nature of Gunpowder Artillery in India during the Sixteenth Century - a Reappraisal of the Impact of European Gunnery [Elektronische Daten] [Iqtidar Alam Khan] The opening line of Abu'l Faẓl's notice in Ā'īn-i Akbarī on "top” (gunpowder artillery) describes it as "a wonderful lock (qufl-i shiqarf) for securing the august edifice of royalty (iqbāl sarā-i jahānbānī) and a key (kulīd-i dilkushā) to the door of conquest (darwāza-i kishwarsitānī)” He then proceeds to claim that except for the Mediterranean/Ottoman territories (Rūmistān), in no other place was gunpowder artillery available in such abundance as in the Mughal Empire. These statements cannot be brushed aside as simple rhetoric. On the contrary, they may well be perceived as reflecting the significance gunpowder artillery had come to acquire with regard to two important matters, namely, (a) strengthening of central authority and (b) rapid military conquests leading to the annexation of vast territories. Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1999 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 27-34 1356-1863 9:1<27 1999 9 JRA https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300015911 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300015911 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Khan Iqtidar Alam NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 27-34 1356-1863 9:1<27 1999 9 JRA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge