[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903) › c12.2 # The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.2 The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.2 - **Language:** English ### [c12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c12.2) The general name for this branch was \*Top-khānah\* (\*top\*, cannon, \*khānah\*, house, division). Every department connected with the artillery was included under the one name; it comprized, 1) a manufacturing department; 2) a magazine or ordnance department, in both of which the imperial \*Khānsāmān\*, or Lord Steward, had the superior control over the Daroghah or Mīr Ātash; 3) the field artillery in actual use; and 4) the guns in use in the fortresses. In these last two subdivisions the Mīr Ātash seems to have been entirely independent of the \*Khānsāmān\*. - [Previous: c11.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c11.s3.3) - [Next: c12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c12.3) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c12.2) · Pramāṇa