<P> Gunpowder technology is believed to have arrived in India by the mid-14th century , but could have been introduced much earlier by the Mongols , who had conquered both China and some borderlands of India , perhaps as early as the mid-13th century . The unification of a large single Mongol Empire resulted in the free transmission of Chinese technology into Mongol conquered parts of India . Regardless , it is believed that the Mongols used Chinese gunpowder weapons during their invasions of India . It was written in the Tarikh - i Firishta ( 1606 -- 1607 ) that the envoy of the Mongol ruler Hulegu Khan was presented with a dazzling pyrotechnics display upon his arrival in Delhi in 1258 AD . The first gunpowder device , as opposed to naphtha - based pyrotechnics , introduced to India from China in the second half of the 13th century , was a rocket called the `` hawai '' ( also called `` ban '' ) . The rocket was used as an instrument of war from the second half of the 14th century onward , and the Delhi sultanate as well as Bahmani kingdom made good use of them . As a part of an embassy to India by Timurid leader Shah Rukh ( 1405 -- 1447 ) , ' Abd al - Razzaq mentioned naphtha - throwers mounted on elephants and a variety of pyrotechnics put on display . Roger Pauly has written that `` while gunpowder was primarily a Chinese innovation , '' the saltpeter that led to the invention of gunpowder may have arrived from India , although it is also likely that it originates indigenously in China . </P>
<P> Gunpowder technology is believed to have arrived in India by the mid-14th century , but could have been introduced much earlier by the Mongols , who had conquered both China and some borderlands of India , perhaps as early as the mid-13th century . The unification of a large single Mongol Empire resulted in the free transmission of Chinese technology into Mongol conquered parts of India . Regardless , it is believed that the Mongols used Chinese gunpowder weapons during their invasions of India . It was written in the Tarikh - i Firishta ( 1606 -- 1607 ) that the envoy of the Mongol ruler Hulegu Khan was presented with a dazzling pyrotechnics display upon his arrival in Delhi in 1258 AD . The first gunpowder device , as opposed to naphtha - based pyrotechnics , introduced to India from China in the second half of the 13th century , was a rocket called the `` hawai '' ( also called `` ban '' ) . The rocket was used as an instrument of war from the second half of the 14th century onward , and the Delhi sultanate as well as Bahmani kingdom made good use of them . As a part of an embassy to India by Timurid leader Shah Rukh ( 1405 -- 1447 ) , ' Abd al - Razzaq mentioned naphtha - throwers mounted on elephants and a variety of pyrotechnics put on display . Roger Pauly has written that `` while gunpowder was primarily a Chinese innovation , '' the saltpeter that led to the invention of gunpowder may have arrived from India , although it is also likely that it originates indigenously in China . </P>
who used gunpowder in war for the first time in india
who used gunpowder in war for the first time in india
Mongols
Mongols