Straight bladed Tulwar

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by ariel

What are they called? Dhup? Sukhela? I am away from the books.....

Thats it Ariel!!! Exactly the term I couldnt remember.......nicely done, looks like your memory is workin OK

Apparantly SE India, the straight blade examples are 'sukhela' and in the Deccan, the 'dhup'. I better make sure to check my notes. While it seems that the tulwar hilt is still unusual with these blades, it would seem that these terms are the ones you're looking for Gav (and thank you for the kind words I did see a note that states that rather than for combat, these were essentially 'swords of state' and Tipu Sultan's sword (one of them) was a tulwar hilted straight sword.

Thanks for the great example there as well Rick, beautiful blade!

All the best,
Jim