The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c5.23

c5.23

*Summary.* — Thus, apart from titles or money rewards, or ordinary gifts, a man might be awarded any of the following honorary distinctions, of a more permanent character — (1) the right to carry a flag or simple standard, (2) the right to display a yak-tail standard, (3) the right to use kettle-drums and beat the *naubat*, (4) the right to display the fish and its accompanying emblems, (5) the right to use a litter adorned with gold fringes and strings of pearls. Of course, all these things were dependent on the caprice of the monarch; for in the Moghul, like in all Oriental states — *Ba yak nukṭah maḥram* (محرم) *mujrim* (مجرم) *shavvad*: By one spot “confidant” becomes “criminal.”