Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s3.3

c7.s3.3

It was the pride and the dream of a warrior not to be captured alive by an enemy in open fight. He either came out with full honours of victory and with numerous scars or lay dead on the field of battle in a state of greater glory.¹ These conditions radically changed with the introduction of guns and gun-powder, for the latter rendered the old-time crude weapons almost ineffective.