The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c15.33

c15.33

Kālā Piyādah. Kāmwar Khān (Ms. of the Royal Asiatic Society, Morley’s Catalogue No. 97) when speaking of the army led against Nizām-ul-Mulk by Mubāriz Khān, ṣūbahdār of Ḥaidarābād, says there were in it 30,000 matchlockmen of the Dakhin known as Kālā piyādah, (lit. “black foot-soldiers”). These if not identical with, must have been very similar to the Karnātakī.