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The site says the overall length is 545mm - can that really be right? I was initially going to say that it looked physically shorter than I expected a polearm to look, but I think that's just due to the width of the pole itself.
This thing has to be longer than half a meter, right?
According to Wikipedia it's technically a dagger. (and they are generally shorter, at 510mm) Idk if there is a minimum shaft length to classify a weapon as a polearm but I feel like there should be, otherwise any blade on a shaft (even a hatchet, for example) could technically be one ?
Just used the description on the site, I know very little about Indian weaponry (or, for that matter, debates on how much pole a polearm needs)
Oh I'm not saying you were misleading, or even wrong, I even did a quick search for the actual definition of a polearm to make sure I wasn't spouting nonsense, and according to the experts, it is basically a mess. The wikipedia article even has a sizeable section titled "Classification difficulties".