The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c14.10

c14.10

Hazārī. The word hazārī often appears in histories, and from the context I have found that it means an officer of artillery, generally of garrison artillery. The equivalent may be taken to be our rank of captain. Hazārī is, of course, the same word as that used for one of the ranks (manṣabs), which we have detailed earlier in this work. But the two things intended by the one word could not have been the same. A manṣabdār of 1000 was a officer of high, or at any rate of considerable, rank; while Hazārīs are spoken of in the plural in a way to show that they were numerous and of no great consideration.