The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c17.13

c17.13

Fitzclarence, 102, thus describes the charge made on the Sitabaldi hill by the Nāgpur Rajah’s Arabs on the 26th Nov. 1817. “Their manner of advancing was exceedingly imposing. Being perfectly undisciplined, they advanced in a crowd; the bravest being in advance and taking high bounds and turning two or three times round in the air, they rushed forward to the sound of small drums, accompanied by the perpetual vociferation of the war-cry ‘Dīn! Dīn! Muḥammad!’ This sounds at a distance like ‘ding, ding’, which is often used instead of the correct expression”. As this represents what was, no doubt, the long-established mode of fighting on foot, I give it, in spite of its referring to a period after the fall of Moghul rule.