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	<title>Never Yet Melted &#187; Bodraj</title>
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		<title>A Relic of the Raj</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a recent acquisition: a boar spear blade made by Bodraj of Aurangabad, one of the preferred models of blade used for Pig-Sticking, the finest sport in Asia, by British officers and colonial administrators in the pre-WWII days of the Empire. (Click on the above picture for more. The link goes to another web-site [...]]]></description>
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	<p>Here is a recent acquisition: a boar spear blade made by <a href="http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/gazeetter_reprint/Aurangabad/ch7_industrial.html#8"><br />
Bodraj</a> of Aurangabad, one of the preferred models of blade used for Pig-Sticking, the finest sport in Asia, by British officers and colonial administrators in the pre-WWII days of the Empire.</p>

	<p>(Click on the above picture for more. The link goes to another web-site I use for image and file distribution.  I plan to post more photo collections of antique weapons from my personal collection from time to time.)</p>


	<p>Sir Robert Baden-Powell describes it, thusly:</p>

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The Bodraj head is a flat oval blade tapering to a point.  It is 4 inches long, three-quarters to 1 inch broad at the widest part, with a neck and socket of 4 inches long ; a projecting rib runs from point to socket along the centre of each side of the blade, standing about one-sixth of an inch, and sharpened along its back.  This head is particularly adapted for use in Pig-sticking Cup Competitions.</blockquote></p>

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<strong>&#8220;Snaffles,&#8221; <em>The Finest View in Asia</em>, 1928</strong></p>
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