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  2. Madras Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The Madras Regiment is the oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army, originating in the 1750s as a unit of the British East India Company. The regiment took part in numerous campaigns with the British Indian Army and the post-independence Indian Army .

  3. Madras Army - Wikipedia

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    The Army of the Madras Presidency remained almost unaffected by the Indian Rebellion of 1857.By contrast with the larger Bengal Army where all but twelve (out of eighty-four) infantry and cavalry regiments either mutinied or were disbanded, all fifty-two regiments of Madras Native Infantry remained loyal and passed into the new Indian Army when direct British Crown rule replaced that of the ...

  4. List of regiments and corps of the Indian Army - Wikipedia

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    Indian Army Indian Navy ... Madras Regiment: 1758 Wellington, Tamil Nadu "Swadharme nidhanam shreyaha" ("it is a glory to die doing one's duty")

  5. 9th Battalion, Madras Regiment - Wikipedia

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    In April 1951, the battalion was integrated with Indian Army and on 1 May 1954, it was merged with the Madras Regiment and was re-designated 9th Battalion of the Madras Regiment (Travancore). [5] After the integration of Travancore State Force with the Indian Army, the State Forces Colours were ceremonially laid up at Chetwode Hall, Indian ...

  6. Infantry of the Indian Army - Wikipedia

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    The present regiments of the Indian Army trace their origin to the British East India Company, when Indians were employed to protect their trading stations. From the middle of the eighteenth century, the three presidencies of the company began to maintain armies at Calcutta (Bengal Army), Madras (Madras Army) and Bombay (Bombay Army). The ...

  7. Ram Prakash Roperia - Wikipedia

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    After his graduation he joined Indian Military Academy and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Indian Army on 19 December 1981 in the 26th Battalion of the Madras Regiment. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was promoted to lieutenant on 19 December 1983, with his promotion gazetted posthumously.

  8. Madras Engineer Group - Wikipedia

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    Madras Sappers at the gates of Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, March 1945. Madras Engineer Group (MEG), informally known as the Madras Sappers, is an engineer group of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The Madras Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile Madras Presidency army of the British Raj. This regiment has its HQ in ...

  9. List of regiments of the Indian Army (1903) - Wikipedia

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    The Commander-in-Chief of India, Lord Kitchener carried out a reform of the British Indian Army in 1903. These reforms were intended to improve the Army, which had been formed from the separate Bengal, Bombay and Madras presidency armies in 1895 to be replaced by the Bengal, Bombay, Madras and Punjab commands.