Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c20.s7.18

v1.c20.s7.18

¹ It consisted of twenty-two Nakkaraband chiefs, i.e. each entitled to a kettle-drum, and fifteen Turais, or chiefs, entitled to brass trumpets. [“ As a mark of favour, kettle-drums (naqqārah) and the right to play them (naubat) might be granted to a subject, but he must be a man of the rank of 2000 sawār (troopers) or upwards. As an invariable condition, however, it was stipulated they should not be used when the Emperor was present, or within a certain distance from his residence” (Irvine, Army of the Indian Moghuls, 30, 208 f.).]