25/38 The bow and quiver are now rarely seen, except, possibly, in remote parts of Rajputana. A body of archers helped to hold the Shah Najaf building at Lucknow against Sir Colin Campbell in 1858. Even in 1903-4 some of the Tibetans who resisted the British advance were armed with bows and arrows. An inn of the Oriental pattern, often called caravanserai in books of travel. Then the capital of Ranjit Singh, the great Sikh chief. |