@Mezhgan Swords, knives and nowadays guns are our jewellary thats why would be also decorated on walls
Some people , specially from urban centres of punjab and sindh find our this tendency very âdisturbingâ. I was watching an old bollywood movie âjunoonâ 1978 based on an english novel âflight of the pigeonsâ, based on true account. A rohilla pathan of shahjahanpur kidnaps an english lady and her daughter in the riots of 1857. It was interesting to see how pathans were depicted in that movie. On horses, always carried sword and these daggers as well as bandooq when outside, very distinguished from other hindostanis. This âjewellaryâ was our âlaattiâ and we made âbainsâ ours with it.
You know, I have never understood what it is that disturbs people about this. After all, most cultures display the things that they value or have valued historically. The British (and other cultures as well) display suits of armour, shields, swords, and other antiques of that nature as well.
A friend of mine was over at our house recently and saw some of the things we have on the wall and found that strange and in conversation mentioned that she finds the display of these âunusualâ and âunnerving.â :hehe:
It not unusual to find antique hunter guns hanging on the walls of farmhouse and country side houses in Pakistan. My Uncle has two antique hunter guns proudly displayed in his main drawing room of his Islamabad house. But heâs genuinely into hunting, and those guns have a quite a lot history behind them.
I have had people ask about it though as we have a few things that people find usual: 2 large swords mounted on the wall, a knife like the one @marwati posted above over the front door threshold and a 3ft pulwar in its sheath against an endtable. All for decorative purposes, I assure you.
This is the major difference between Punjab/Sindh and Pashtuns. In Punjab weapons are usually with dacoits and other similar kind of people. I think people who have them are somehow looked down upon.
in India, my bro tells me, hunting by common man [only Muslims] was common. men used to go almost on every weekend and the kids would follow themâŚthese hunting trips were aimed at shooting large birds [Russian migratory birds {mostly surKhaab (geese)} on river Ganges in winter]âŚlarge animals like neel gaaye [blue cow] was prohibited by law but Muslims hunted them on the request from local farmersâŚthey are a menace to farmersâŚthey graze on standing crops. iâve been to several such trips [when the tradition was almost dying]people still hunt but not that frequently.
