Regular infantry component of the Bengal Army in British India
Bengal Native Infantry
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Active
1757–1858 (as part of the East India Company's Bengal Army) 1858–1895 (as part of the Bengal Army of the British Raj) 1895–1903 (under the Bengal command of the British Indian Army)
Battle of Plassey Third Carnatic War First Anglo-Mysore War Second Anglo-Mysore War Third Anglo-Mysore War First Anglo-Maratha War Cotiote War Fourth Anglo-Mysore War Second Anglo-Maratha War Invasion of Java Anglo-Nepalese War Third Anglo-Maratha War First Anglo-Burmese War First Opium War First Anglo-Afghan War First Anglo-Sikh War Second Anglo-Sikh War Second Anglo-Burmese War Indian Mutiny Second Opium War Second Anglo-Afghan War Suakin Expedition Third Anglo-Burmese War
Military unit
The regiments of Bengal Native Infantry, alongside the regiments of Bengal European Infantry, were the regular infantry components of the East India Company's Bengal Army from the raising of the first Native battalion in 1757 to the passing into law of the Government of India Act 1858 (as a direct result of the Indian Mutiny). At this latter point control of the East India Company's Bengal Presidency passed to the British Government. The first locally recruited battalion was raised by the East India Company in 1757 and by the start of 1857 there were 74 regiments of Bengal Native Infantry in the Bengal Army. Following the Mutiny the Presidency armies came under the direct control of the United Kingdom Government and there was a widespread reorganisation of the Bengal Army that saw the Bengal Native Infantry regiments reduced to 45.
The title "Bengal Native Infantry" fell out of use in 1885 and the Bengal Infantry regiments ceased to exist when the three separate Presidency armies were absorbed into the British Indian Army in 1903. There are units currently serving in the armies of India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom who can trace their lineage directly to units of the Bengal Native Infantry, for example the Jat Regiment in the Indian Army, the Royal Gurkha Rifles in the British Army and 6th Battalion, The Punjab Regiment in the Army of Pakistan.
^Williams, John (1817). An historical account of the rise and progress of the Bengal Native Infantry, from its first formation in 1757, to 1796 when the present regulations took place, together with a detail of the services on which the several battalions have been employed. London: John Murray.
^Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty's British Forces on the Bengal Establishment. Calcutta: R C Lepage & Co. 1859.
^Army Headquarters India (1919). Indian Army List (2012 reprinted ed.). Luton: Andrews UK. ISBN 978-1-78150-255-6.
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