Barchi (lance)

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Barchi is a type of lance with a wooden handle, once common in South Asia (the word itself is Hindi). They were common in the 16th century.

[edit] Bibliography

• Balfour, Edward (1885). The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia. London: Bernard Quaritch.
• Mayaram, Shail (2003). Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins. New York: Columbia University Press.