470Rigby,

If you are talking of the maharajas or the erstwhile kingdoms in India, after 1857 there were none who were anti British. The only ones that had been anti British lost the Sepoy Mutiny then and there was no major opposition to the British in India except from the Congress, a party started by a British socialist, Allan Octavian Hume, and that is why the Indian government abolished the minor monarchies after independence.

That said, other than Mannlichers which were very popular bolt rifles in India I have not seen many pre independence Continental guns if any sold there at any time unless you take cheap American Harrington and Richardsons and other similar single barrel shotguns which were sold in large enough numbers to farmers for vermin control.

Indians boycotted British clothing and cars but not guns - I cannot recall ANY boycott of British guns by any individual or group in recorded Indian history.