Mahout

Mahout
Mahout
CountryHistorical India
Kingdom of Sri Lanka
BranchCavalry (melee)
An image of the elephant keeper in India riding his elephant from Tashrih al-aqvam (1825).

A mahout is an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper. Mahouts were used since antiquity for both civilian and military use. Traditionally, mahouts came from ethnic groups with generations of elephant keeping experience, with a mahout retaining his elephant throughout its working life or service years.

This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.