A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido
A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903) by Artista Desconocido

A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer 1857 - 1903

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    A rare pair of Royal camel-guns or 'zamburak', formerly belonging to Maharaja Bahadur Singh of Ajmer (1857-1903)
    Rajasthan, Ajmer, dated Samvat 1952 (1895 CE)

    Each cannon in polychrome wood and koftgari gold steel, inscribed 'Maharaj Shri Bahadur Singh Ji, Rajasthan Masuda Samvat 1952'.

    L. 116 cm (each)

    A zanburak, pronounced zamburak, is known in Arabic, Persian and Turkish as wasp, bee or hornet. ‘Zambur’ means hornet, and ‘ak’ is the diminutive - so ‘little wasp’. These swivel guns were carried by camels and were used by the Persians in the eighteenth century until their demise in 1849. In battle, the animals would be restrained on their knees and loaded as bombardiers, after which the weapons would be fired from atop their backs. Zamburaks were the Indian response to European horse artillery. However, the zamburaks were less mobile and thus less manoeuvrable than horse artillery. An Ottoman example of one of these guns mounted on a camel is illustrated by Marsigli in L'Etat militaire de l'Empire Ottoman in 1732. During the Sikh Wars (1846-1847 & 1848-1849), the speed of movement of the European horse artillery made the zamburaks useless. They were too slow, and their power was inadequate. They couldn’t catch up with the European horse artillery. That doesn’t, however, make them less impressive and frightening.

    Provenance:
    Maharaja Rao Saheb Bahadur Singh, Thakur of Masuda (reigned 1863-1903)
    Collection Davinder Toor, London

    Sources:
    Roy Kaushik, ‘Military Synthesis in South Asia: Armies, Warfare and Indian Society, c. 1740-1849’, in: The Journal of Military History, Volume 69, no. 3, 2005, p. 662
    Robert Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 1995, p. 137-139
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