| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3 | The History Cooperative

Iqtidar Alam Khan. Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India. (Aligarh Historians Society Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 263. $35.00.
This book does not live up to its subtitle. It does, however, deserve a place beside the works of David Ayalon, John Francis Guilmartin, and Kenneth Chase as a fundamental contribution to the study of the development, distribution, and effects of firearms in late medieval and early modern times. It is unfortunate that this book did not appear in time for Chase to incorporate Iqtidar Alam Khan's findings into his global treatment of the subject.	1
Like most of the Aligharh historians, Khan brings a mastery of the relevant Persian texts to his work; the book culminates thirty years of work on the topic. Unlike most of his colleagues, Khan makes good use of contemporary scholarship beyond South Asia. He uses this knowledge to demonstrate the use the Chinese h'uo chiang, a bamboo tube used as a fire projector as one of the first gunpowder weapons (though not a firearm) employed in South Asia. He thus demonstrates the vital importance of integrating the study of all the regions of Eurasia, especially during the Mongol period.	. . .

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