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Ahsham is composed of an infantry, the personnel of the artillery, the artificers, and the attendants on the court. The incident of service, which was common to all these men and caused their inclusion under one head, was the fact that they were all borne direct on the imperial books, and received their pay from the imperial treasury, without the intervention of a mansabdar. The Ahsham were neither mansabdars, tabinan, nor ahadis.

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  • Ahsham (Mughal Infantry)
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  • Ahsham is composed of an infantry, the personnel of the artillery, the artificers, and the attendants on the court. The incident of service, which was common to all these men and caused their inclusion under one head, was the fact that they were all borne direct on the imperial books, and received their pay from the imperial treasury, without the intervention of a mansabdar. The Ahsham were neither mansabdars, tabinan, nor ahadis.
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Garrison
  • Delhi
Commander
  • Mughal Emperor
Branch
  • Army
Role
  • little more than a night-watchman, and guardian over baggage, either in camp or on the line of march
Country
  • Mugha Empire
Type
  • Foot Soldiers
Author
  • Irvine, William
Unit Name
  • Ahsham
Title
Equipment
  • Swords, daggers, matchlocks, lances, bows, arrows, artillery, guns etc.
commander1 label
  • Commander – in – chief
Year
  • 1903(xsd:integer)
abstract
  • Ahsham is composed of an infantry, the personnel of the artillery, the artificers, and the attendants on the court. The incident of service, which was common to all these men and caused their inclusion under one head, was the fact that they were all borne direct on the imperial books, and received their pay from the imperial treasury, without the intervention of a mansabdar. The Ahsham were neither mansabdars, tabinan, nor ahadis. Akbar had 12,000 matchlockmen (the only men in the group at all entitled to be reckoned as soldiers) come the doorkeepers, the palace guards, the letter carriers and spies, the swordsmen, wrestlers, slaves, litter-bearers, carpenters, water-carriers and so forth. There is a class of troops called Dakhin (extra, additional) which seems no longer that existed in Alamgir's reign.
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