Have seen Balkan guns like this with similar chiseled human figures on the barrel. Can you post closeups? Costumes they are wearing should tell more about origin but it looks from your pics like Balkans, also overall form is Ottoman Empire not Indian. Definitely right though, not a copy.
I didn't see anything like this when I was in Tunisia last year but arms migrated quite a bit along with the men that used them and a lot of mercenaries from Bosnia and Albania served in N. Africa. Again I'd like to see better pics but looks 18th or early 19th c to me. Nice old soldier
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