The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c9.40
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c9.40
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c9.40
Patkah. — I find in Ghulām ʿAlī Khān, Muqaddamah, fol. 38b, an epithet پتکه پوشان, patkah-poshān, applied to both Sayyads and horse-breakers (chābuk-suwārān). It appears to refer to some part of military equipment, but what it is I do not know. It is evidently used in a depreciatory sense.