The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.8
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.8
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¹ Heralds, that is *naqīb*, Steingass 1421, a servant whose business it is to proclaim the titles of his master, and to introduce those who pay their respects to him. In 1870, on the day of the Duke of Edinburgh’s arrival at Benares, such a herald preceded the late Rajah Deo Narāyan Singh as he walked from the railway station to the river bank, and I heard the man shouting out the Rajah’s titles.