Golundauz of Madras Horse Artillery
Coloured lithograph drawn and coloured by W Hunsley. From a series 'Natives of the Madras Army'.
A 'golundaz' was an Indian gunner. The term translates as a thrower of balls, from the Persian words 'gol', meaning ball, and 'andakhtun' which means to throw. By the mid-1830s the East India Company's Madras Army had three battalions of artillery and one regiment of Horse Artillery on strength, with their headquarters at Dum Dum.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1971-04-33-1
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-04-33-1
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