Ethnographic Arms & Armour - Firangi or Patissa (?) for comment.

Some lunch break!!!:)

Actually the 'name game' can be very frustrating with Indian weapons, and many other factors contribute to that frustration.

To clarify, 'firangi' is a generally applied term in India referring to a blade 'foreign', but not specified...usually regarded as European. The hilts often have various terms, and 'khanda' is a general term for sword (unspecified type) in Indian dialects.
However it is typically held as the Indian sword which became the basis for the Hindu basket hilt in the late 16th century.

The 'pattisa' was a long very flexible blade in varying hilts which had long seatings but no blade reinforcements, and most apparent was the spatulate or spoon shape point (Pant, 1980, p.66). This sword would have no relation to that type.

This well worn and clearly reworked old khanda (Hindu basket hilt), has had an also reworked old blade refitted.

The angular shape of the blade point may be associated with those with spear point, almost lozenge shape in early forms (Sk. 'shulagra=spear shaped) . Pant (1980, p.97) shows silhouettes of these types from iconographic sources; one from Ajanta (6th c.) and others from Harshanath temple 11th c. Rajasthan, and from Nair temples in Tami Nadu 17th c.

Clearly neither hilt nor blade age wise with this sword would meet those early times, however it would seem as often the case, something like this might be a commemorative item intended votively in such temples, as an optimistic possibility.

Safely it might be termed an Indian khanda (the basket hilts were still termed that) with retro styled angular point blade possibly for votive temple purposes. Likely from early(?) 20th c. using older components.

In the Hindu Faith warriors were of course highly honored and the votive presence of their weapons, whether actual or representative, were often present in temples and other religious contexts.

Interesting item, and always great to discuss Indian arms of all kinds!