The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.25

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The *Utārā*. Dismounting, (from H. *utarnā*, to descend, dismount), or fighting on foot, was a peculiarity of Indian horsemen of which they were very proud. It was specially affected among Indian Mahomedans by the Bārhah Sayyads. H. M. Elliot, “M. Hist.”, i, Appendix, 537, speaks of this practice, and the allied one of Colligation in Fighting, as a custom of the Hindū tribes. The *Beglar-nāmah*, (Ell. i, 293) a history of Sind written about 1625, quotes Rānā Kumbā of Amarkoṭ as saying “it was an old-established custom amongst their tribes that both parties should alight from their horses and engage on foot”. Other instances are to be found in the same Appendix.