List of regiments of the Indian Army (1922)

Cavalry

Regular

Auxiliary

Infantry

Regular

Auxiliary Force (India)
  • The Allahabad Rifles
  • The Assam Bengal Railway Battalion
  • The Baluchistan Volunteer Rifle Corps
  • The Bangalore Contingent
  • The Bengal & North West Railway Battalion
  • The Bengal Nagpur Railway Battalion
  • The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment
  • The Bombay Volunteer Rifles Corps
  • The Burma Railways Battalion
  • The Calcutta and Presidency Battalion
  • The Calcutta Presidency Battalion
  • The Calcutta Scottish
  • The Cawnpore Rifles
  • The Coorg and Mysore Company
  • The Delhi Contingent
  • The East Coast Battalion
  • The East Indian Railway Regiment
  • The Eastern Bengal Company
  • The Eastern Bengal Railway Battalion
  • The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Regiment
  • The Hyderabad Rifles
  • The Lucknow Rifles
  • The Lucknow Volunteer Rifles
  • The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles
  • The Madras Guards
  • The Mussourie Battalion
  • The Nagpur Rifles
  • The Naini Tal Volunteer Rifles
  • The Nilgiri Malabar Battalion
  • The Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles
  • The North Western Railway Battalion
  • The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Battalion
  • The Poona Rifles
  • The Punjab Rifles
  • The Rangoon Battalion
  • The Simla Rifles
  • The Sind Rifles
  • The South Indian Railway Battalion
  • The Tenasserim Battalion
  • The Upper Burma Battalion

Indian Mountain Artillery

Following the absorption of the Presidency armies into the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery, there was no 'field' units of the Indian artillery. The Indian artillery only maintained mountain artillery units, while the Royal Artillery provided the other arms. The units below have their titles in 1922 or those used before if they were changed later;[1]

Brigades (till 1938)/Regiments

  • 20th Indian Pack Artillery Brigade
  • 21st Indian Pack Art Bde
  • 22nd Indian Pack Art Bde
  • 23rd Indian Pack Art Bde
  • 24th Indian Pack Art Bde
  • 25th Indian Pack Art Bde

Batteries (Separate)

Indian Territorial Force
  • University Training Corps
  • Urban Infantry

The Frontier Corps
  • The Gilgit Scouts
  • The Chitral Scouts
  • The Kurram Militia
  • The Tochi Scouts
  • The South Waziristan Scouts
  • The Zhob Militia
  • The Pishin Scouts (1946–47)
  • Khyber Rifles

Military Police and North-East Frontier units

Services
  • The Army Bearer Corps
  • The Army Clothing Department
  • The Army Hospital Corps
  • The Army Remount Department
  • The Army Veterinary Corps
  • The Indian Medical Department
  • The Indian Ordnance Department
  • The Military Farms Department
  • Supply and Transport Corps

Support Arms

Indian State Forces
  • (see separately)

Wartime Units and others formed between 1922 and 1947

See also

References
  1. Frederick 1984, pp. 900–11.
  • Frederick, J. B. M. (1984). Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978, Volume II. Wakefield, United Kingdom: Microform Academic Publishers. ISBN 1-85117-008-1.
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