The Rampuri is an Indian pocket knife with a single edged blade typically 9 to 12 inches long, made in both switchblade and step lock forms and named for Rampur in Uttar Pradesh. Royal bladesmiths employed by the Nawabs of Rampur began making the knives after the eighteenth century's widespread adoption of firearms reduced demand for traditional weapons. The Rampuri later became associated with Indian organized crime and gained wide cultural visibility through Bollywood crime thrillers of the 1960s and 1970s, before a 1990s Government of Uttar Pradesh regulation limiting blade length to 4.5 inches sharply reduced its popularity and traditional manufacture. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Weapon Class (category)Sword / Polearm / Bladed 2 Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Rampuri
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The Rampuri is still in use today as a criminal weapon by the local Indian mafia, although locally made guns and sophisticated automatic pistols have largely taken their place
2. Wikipedia: Rampuri
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is an Indian pocket knife with a single-edged blade typically 9 to 12 inches (23 to 30 cm) long
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