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Originally Posted by kronckew
19c maces were well past their sell-by date.
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Were they? While that may be true in Europe for the most part with the exception of WWI trench maces the same can not be said for India were many armed conflicts are documented during the 1800s between various Indian factions and between Indians and Europeans. In addition Indian soldiers worked for the British Military in various conflicts outside of India were they brought their native weapons with them.
Here are some of the 19th century Indian conflicts.
1803–1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
1814–1816 Anglo-Gorkha war
1817–1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
1845-1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
1848-1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War
1850 The Kond tribe revolted in Orissa under leadership of chief Bisoi.
1855 The 'Great Rebellion'by the Santal community against the British in Eastern India
1857–58 Indian Mutany also called Sepoy Mutiny, unsuccessful rebellion against British rule, started in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company.
1857-1858 The Bhil revolted again under the leadership of Bhagoji Naik and Kajar Singh.
1860 The Lushai tribal people raided the then British Tripura and killed 186 British subjects.
1860-1862 The Synteng tribalaintia Hills district|Jaintia Hills in North-East India.
1861 The Juang tribal community revolted in Orissa.
1862 The Koya tribal community revolted in Andhra against tribal landlords called 'Muttader' in tribal dialect.
1863 Ambela Campaign, one of numerous expeditions led by British forces in the border area between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Punjab Province of British India.
1864-1865 Bhutan War, fought between British India and Bhutan.
1869-1870 The Santal people revolted at Dhanbad in Eastern India against a local monarch.The British mediated to settle dispute.
1879-1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War, fought between the United Kingdom and the Emirate of Afghanistan, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan. This was the second time British India invaded Afghanistan.
1879 The Naga tribal people revolted in North-Eastern India.
1880 The Koya revolted again at Malkangiri in Orissa under leadership of Tammandora.
1883 The Sentinelese tribal people of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean attacked the British.
1887 Third Anglo-Burmese War, also known as the Third Burma War, Following the war, Burma came under the rule of the British Raj as a province of India.
1888 Hazara Expedition, also known as the Black Mountain Expedition or the First Hazara Expedition, was a military campaign by the British against the tribes of Kala Dhaka (then known as the Black Mountains of Hazara) in the Hazara region of what is now Pakistan.
1888 Sikkim Expedition, British military expedition to expel Tibetan forces from Sikkim in present day north east India. The roots of the conflict lay in British-Tibetan competition for sovereignty over Sikkim.
1889 The mass agitation by the Munda against the British in Eastern India.
1891 Hunza-Nagar Campaign, fought in 1891 by troops of the British Raj against the princely states of Hunza and Nagar in the Gilgit Agency (now part of the Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan). It is known in Pakistan as the "Anglo-Brusho War".
1891 The tribals of North-East India revolted against the British under leadership of Tikendraji Singh.
1892 The Lushei people revolted against the British repeatedly.
1895 Chitral Expedition, a military expedition in 1895 sent by the British authorities to relieve the fort at Chitral which was under siege after a local coup.
1895 The famous revolt by the Munda tribal community under leadership of Birsa Munda.Later,Birsa was arrested.
1897 Siege of Malakand, Saidullah, a Pashtun fakir led an army of at least 10,000 against the British garrison.
1897–98 Mohmand campaign, British military campaign against the Mohmands, a Pashtun tribe who inhabit the hilly country to the north-west of Peshawar, in the North-West Frontier Province of India, now Pakistan. British punitive expeditions had been sent against the Mohmands in 1851-1852, 1854, 1864, 1879, 1880, but the principal operations were those of 1897-1898.
1897 Tochi Expedition, a punitive visit by Anglo-Indian troops to the Tochi Valley in 1897 to put down a rebellion there. The rebellion started with an attack by the Madda Khel section of the Waziris in June 1897.
1897–1898 Tirah Campaign, an Indian frontier war. Tirah is a mountainous tract of country in what is now a federally administered tribal area of Pakistan.