The Volunteer and Part Time Units of the British Indian Army


The Volunteer Corps

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1857: The Madras Volunteer Guards
 
1860: The Nagpur Volunteer Rifles
1860: The Bihar Mounted Rifles
1861: 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps
1861: 2nd Punjab (Simla) Volunteer Rifle Corps
1863: The Calcutta Volunteer Rifle Corps
1865: The Oudh Volunteer Rifle Corps
1868: The Bangalore Rifle Volunteers
1869: The East Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
 
1872: The Calcutta Volunteer Lancers
1873: The Eastern Bengal State Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
1873: The Northern Bengal Volunteer Rifle Corps
1875: The Great India Peninsula Railway Volunteer Corps
1877: The Moulmein Volunteer Rifle Corps
1877: The Bombay Volunteer Rifles
1877: The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
1878: The Agra Volunteer Rifle Corps
1878: The Nilgiri Volunteer Rifles
1879: The Northern Bengal State Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
1879: The Tirhoot State Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
1879: The Berar Volunteer Rifle Corps
1879: The Burma Railways Volunteer Rifle Corps
1879: The Bengal and North Western Railway Volunteer Rifles
1879: The Chazipur Volunteer Rifle Corps
 
1880: The Sylhet Volunteer Rifle Corps
1881: The Rohilkhand Volunteer Rifle Corps
1882: The Rajputana-Malwa Volunteer Rifle Corps
1882: The Lakhimpur Volunteer Rifle Corps
1882: The Shillong Volunteer Rifles
1884: The Sibsagar Mounted Rifles
1884: The Central Bengal Light Horse
1884: The South Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps
1884: The Dacca Volunteer Rifle Corps
1884: The Coorg and Mysore Rifle Corps
1885: The Chittagong Volunteer Rifle Corps
1885: The Coimbatore Volunteer Rifles
1885: The Bellary Volunteer Rifle Corps
1885: The Madras Railway Volunteers
1885: The Southern Maratta Railway Rifles
1885: The Orissa Volunteer Rifles
1885: The Malabar Volunteer Rifle Corps
1885: The Chadesi Volunteer Rifle Corps
1885: The Gauhati Rifles
1886: 3rd Punjab (Sind, Punjab and Indus Valley Railway) Volunteer Rifle Corps
1886: The Upper Burma Volunteer Rifle Corps
1887: The Darrang Mounted Infantry
1888: The Bombay Light Horse
1888: The Presidency Volunteer Reserve Battalion
1888: The Nowgong Mounted Rifles
1888: The Bengal Nagpur Railway Colunteer Rifle Corps
 
1890: The Midland Railway Volunteer Corps
1891: The Chota Nagpur Mounted Rifles
1893: The Punjab Light Horse
 
1901: The Assam Bengal Railway Volunteer Rifles
1901: The Eastern Bengal Volunteer Rifle Corps
1903: The Kolar Gold Fields Rifle Volunteers
1904: The Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles
1914: The Calcutta Scottish
 

The Indian Defence Force Units 1917-1920

The Auxiliary Force (India) Units in 1939