The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c7.s2.2

c7.s2.2

In ‘Ālamgīr’s reign we find (B.M. N°. 6599, fol. 163*a*) the following classification: (1) *‘Irāqī*, (2) *Mujannas*, (3) *Turkī*, (4) *Yābū*, (5) *Tāzī*, (6) *Janglī*. This is practically the same as Akbar’s, except that Arab horses are not mentioned. This must be an oversight, since we learn from many passages in the contemporary historians that Arab horses were still in use. The *Tāzī* and *Janglī* were Indian horses, what we now call countrybreds, the former being held of superior quality to the latter. The *Yābū* was, I suppose, what we call now the *Kābulī*, stout-built, slow, and of somewhat sluggish temperament. The *Turkī* was an animal from Bukhārā or the Oxus country; the *‘Irāqī* came from Mesopotamia.