Topic started by kannan (@ 212.214.162.26) on Fri Mar 3 05:53:06 .
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When began Indian army to use guns and canons?
Did they( any kings in India) use it before 16th ceuntury?

Responses:

• From: kannan (@ 212.214.162.26) on: Fri Mar 3 06:02:54 EST 2000
  
  When did they bagan to use gunpowder?
  
  
• From: JayBee (@ 203.106.94.148) on: Wed Mar 15 11:16:08 EST 2000
  
  Babar is said to have used the cannon proper in India.
  But there were rudimentary long tubular instruments which could expel projectiles with the use of gun-powder.
  Chengiz Khan is said to have made developements to the rocketry of the Chinese and constructed some cannons. The Turks/Mongols must have made further structural changes. These equipment must have arrived in India through the Mughals who inherited from the Turks/Mongols.
  
  
• From: kannan (@ 212.214.162.26) on: Mon Mar 20 05:22:25 EST 2000
  
  Who is/are Babar?
  
  
• From: JayBee (@ 202.188.135.192) on: Tue Mar 21 01:27:39 EST 2000
  
  Babar was a central Asian ruler. He ruled over a small country around the present Tashkent in Russia.
  He was descended from the Mongol leader Chengkiz Khan and the Turkish tyrant Timur. This mixture of Mongol/Turk came to be known as the 'Mughals'.
  He was chased out of his country. So he came to Afganistan and captured some territory around Kabul.
  Soon afterwards, he invaded Punjab and thence the Delhi Sultanate.
  On capturing Delhi, he became the first of the Great Mughal rulers.
  
  
• From: Dilkushi (@ sdn-ar-004gaatlap176.dialsprint.net) on: Sun May 7 20:09:22 EDT 2000
  
  The art of making of Crackers and fireworks and Devices for bombardment had been know to some People from India quite a long time,It is evident that some folks from Machilipatnam and Visakapatnam make their own fireworks and the Celebration of Dashara is also an example of use of Explosives in India ,but i dont have documental evidence i would appreciate anyone who can throw some light on zDocumental evidence on this.
  
  
• From: Pranshu Saxena (@ cc950566-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) on: Tue Aug 1 23:07:52 EDT 2000
  
  hi,
  
  i think an historical scholar , i cannot remember where i read it, wanted to know if Gupta army used
  gunpowder in aggressive actions. I believe they or
  some later time army but still in last millenium
  (oh did'nt we slip into 2000, ok a millenium before that), used rockets as signals etc.
  have to look it further up.
  
  
• From: JayBee (@ 203.106.94.64) on: Wed Aug 2 01:54:23 EDT 2000
  
  The Chinese have been using rockets as weapons. According one legend, they used it to burn the sails of the enemy ships.
  
  There was one substance known as 'Greek Fire' which was used as late as Byzantine times.
  
  Nobody knows what is the composition of Greek Fire.
  
  It was used as a combustant. They made bombs with it and hurled it with giant catapults. There is an ancient painting which shows Greek Fire being used with a sort of flame thrower.
  
  Could it have been in use in India?
  
  In spite of distances, there was quite a lot of communication with each other among the nations.
  
  We learn that 'Yavana' - Greco-Roman artisans were employed in making weapons in Tamilnad during Sanggam times.
  
  Hnece there is a great chance that all types of war technology could have existed in India.
  
  
• From: sep baswaraj jawale (@ 210.212.173.60) on: Thu Oct 12 07:24:36 EDT 2000
  
  sep
  
  
• From: ramya (@ 203.197.160.102) on: Thu Feb 1 00:26:17
  
  Fireworks and gunpowder are known to be Chinese contributions to the world. The first known cannnon was also developed by them sometime around the early part of the 13th century. From then onwards the knowledge spread westwards and developed pretty fast and very soon cannons made their first appearance in India (as JayBee has mentioned) through the early Moghuls. By the early 16th century, hand held firearms such as matchlock muskets had already appeared in India. These were mostly of Persian make.
  
  
• From: Tamil (@ powersolvinc01.erols.com) on: Thu Feb 1 11:14:33
  
  The Bahamanis and Vijayanagar employed European mercenaries as their gunners. They were probably the Portuguese and the Dutch.
  
  
• From: a (@ ad202.166.36.76.magix.com.sg) on: Thu Jul 18 02:40:26
  
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