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Old 21st May 2020, 06:53 PM   #4
Mercenary
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Originally Posted by ariel
Over the past ~10 years average height of an urban Indian man was 174 cm, the rural one 161.5 cm, all-country 166 cm. 200-300 years ago they must have been shorter ( secular trend).
I apologize, I do not believe in it
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Originally Posted by ariel
Indians imported horses from Arabia and Persia. Those were definitely not " donkey-sized":-).
I talked about exactly Indian horses. Not all Indians rode horses from Central Asia or especially from Arabia, such horses were very expensive.
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Originally Posted by ariel
As to the configuration of infantry swords, please see H. Withers "World swords 1400-1945". Both infantry and cavalry European regulation swords were either straight or curved.
We were talking about Indian swords and in mass.
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