The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c17.5

c17.5

Organization. There was no regimental organization; the only divisions known were those created by reason of each chief or noble having his own following of troops. Such words as *tūmān* or *tūmāndār* have no strict or definite meaning. The first meant any body of soldiers, and the second the leader or head of such a body. *Jamaʿhdār* is a word of the same signification and equally vague, though it may be taken as denoting a smaller man than a *tūmāndār*. *Qashūn* is a word employed in the second half of the 18th century, having been borrowed from the Durrānī system, but I do not think it had a much more definite sense than the above words. In the dictionary, Steingass 971, قشون is defined as T., body, company, troop, army, soldier, military station.