Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s3.11

c12.s3.11

In the reign of King Aḥmad Niẓām Shāh, the practice of single-stick was introduced by the king when a boy. He was much skilled in this sort of sword play, and took much delight in the exercise. Accordingly, we are told, all men both high and low began to copy the prince, and “*instead of colleges, as is usual in Muhammadan cities*, schools for single-sword and wrestling were established in all quarters of the city of Aḥmadnagar.”