The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c15.8

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*ʿAlighol*. In the later years we find a class of troops known as *ʿAlighol*, who from one passage (Fraser, “Skinner”, ii, 75, 76) would seem to have been the equivalent of the *ghāzis*, as we now style them, so frequently heard of on our Afghān frontier. Fraser defines them as “a sort of chosen light infantry of the Rohilla Patans: sometimes the term appears to be applied to other troops supposed to be used generally for desperate service”. They are also mentioned in V. Blacker, “War”, 23. W. H. Tone, 50, makes out the *ʿAlighol* to be one of the divisions of the Nezib (*Najīb*).