The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c13.2

c13.2

This division into heavy and light artillery endured up to the end of the Moghul period, but I should describe the Artillery of the Stirrup rather as a subdivision of the Light artillery than as an identical term for it. For instance, distinct from the Artillery of the Stirrup proper, Bernier tells us that Aurangzīb had two hundred to three hundred light camels, each of which carried a small field-piece, of the size of a double musket, attached on the back of the animal “much in the same way as swivels are fixed in our vessels”.