[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903) › c19.9 # The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c19.9 The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c19.9 - **Language:** English ### [c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c19.9) \*Gulālbār\*. The name of the screen which Bernier speaks of as being put up round the emperor’s tents was the \*Gulālbār\*. It is mentioned in the \*Āīn\*, i, 45, 54, but a fuller description will not be out of place, since the word frequently appears in histories, and it is well to have a definite idea of what is meant. \*Gulāl\* in Hindī means “red” and \*bār\*, “anything in the nature of a wall which prevents entrance or passage through it”. Thus the whole word is equivalent to “Red Wall”. Before Akbar’s time the tents of the Gurgānī kings were surrounded by a rope called the \*tanāb-i-qūruq\* (lit. “the rope of hindrance”). In Akbar’s reign the \*gulālbār\* was devised. It was formed out of bambus coloured red and held together by leather straps like a net-work (\*jālī\*), and so made that it might be extended or gathered up at will. Its height was three \*gaz\*, or about eight feet, and it had two gateways to the front and one on the side where the harem tents stood. This screen was erected round the imperial tents, which were styled collectively the \*Daulat-khānah\* (literally, Abode of Prosperity). Outside it a ditch was dug, and red flags, an attribute of sovereignty, were displayed on poles (\*Mirāt-ul-Iṣṭilāḥ\*, fol. 203\*a\*). - [Previous: c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c19.8) - [Next: c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c19.10) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c19.9) · Pramāṇa