Documentation on the Cannons in the Government Museum (Madras)

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The Documentation on the Cannons in the Government Museum, Chennai, (Madras) with colour plates is the first effort of its kind. It is learnt that a similar effort is being made by the British Mus m. The Indian army is also attempting to document Guns in its Artillery Regiment.

The history of the cannons in the Government Museum, Chennai (Madras) shows the extent and spread of the British Empire. These cannons have been collected in the battles the British fought in various parts of the Indian subcontinent and in Asia. Through these one can visualise the common thread of the paramount interest of maintaining Pax Britannica through out the world in the halcyon days of the British Empire.

Through out history superiority in the art of warfare has made the difference between survival and extinction of a people, their religion and culture.

In the First Battle of Panipat, (1526 AD), though Babar had a small army he possessed cannons which the Delhi Sultanate army did not. This meant the defeat of the huge Delhi Sultanate army at the hands of the Moghuls(Schulberg Lucille, 1991,p.159).