It is hard to say from the pictures. but I have seen other hilts of this type, not with quite the same decoration, with blades marked with a Kishangarh etchings, and I have been told about another woth an etching from Rutlam State 1876. 
 
How thick is the blade? 
Can you write the letters down under the langet?
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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