The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c29.34

c29.34

Mīr Ātash (general of artillery), 154; duties of, 155. Mīr Baḥr (head of boatmen), 211. Mīr Bakhshī (second noble), 37. Mirdahah (petty officer), 23, 26, 158. Mīr Manzil (Quarter-master-general), 190. Missiles, 90. Mīzān (kind of standard), 32. Mochī (class of artificer), 174. Moghul Army, an army of horsemen, 57. Moghul cavalry, tactics compared with Europeans, 234. Moghul Empire, War Organization of, reasons for decay of, 296; no patriotism, 296, 297; badly constructed, 297; weakened by jealousies of officers, 297, 298; bad system of recruitment, 298, 299; troops only fit for a procession or a charge, 300. Mortars (deg), 129. Mounting Guard, 188. Mozah-i-āhanī (part of armour), 71. Mugdar (wooden clubs), 185. Mughal (class of infantry), 172. Muḥarraf (mode of archery), 102. Muhnāl (scabbard mountings), 75. Muhrah-i-rahkalah (nozzle of field-piece), 146. Muḥtasib (Censor), 210. Munger (fortress), 269. Muqābil-kob (catapult), 130. Muqaddamah-ul-jais (vanguard), 225. Mūrchāl (battery, entrenchment), 271. Musāʿadat (money advances), 18. Musht (mode of archery), 102. Music, military, 207. Mustaufīs (auditors), 19. Musters, false, 45. Muṭālibah (recovery of loans), 18, 38.