The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c19.10

c19.10

*Jālī*. The word *jālī* is similarly met with in reference to the precincts of the emperor’s tent. The derivation is from H. *jāl*, a net, and it means lattice, grating, network. From the passage quoted in the last paragraph and another in the same book, we see that this network (*jālī*) was the *gulālbār* under another name. But a European observer, who probably had seen an emperor’s camp, says the *gulālbār* was the outer paling fifty yards from the *qanāts*, or cloth screens seven feet high, which enclosed the emperor’s tents (*Seir*, i, 159, note 120). For *gulālbār* Khūshḥāl Chand in one place, Berlin Ms. 495, fol. 1010*a*, uses *ṣalābat-bār* “majestic-enclosure”: and Ashob, fol. 196*b*, claims it as the invention of Ṣalābat Khān¹, Mīr Ātash to ʿĀlamgīr, gulāl-bārah being nothing more than a popular name. Ashob gives a minute description of its construction; this differs in details from that of Anand Rām given above. The tents of princes continued to be protected by the old device of a rope, which still bore the name of tanāb-i-qūruq, or rope of prohibition (Mirāt-ul-I.).