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Award
Order of British India
Insignia of the Order, Second Class (above) and First Class, prior to 1939, (below)
Type
Order of merit
Awarded for
Long, faithful and honourable service
Presented by
the British monarch
Eligibility
Officers of the British Indian Army holding a Viceroy's commission, Indian Officers of Indian States Forces, Frontier Corps and Military Police
Post-nominals
OBI
Status
No longer awarded after 1947
Established
17 April 1837
Ribbon 1837–1838 Ribbon 1838–1939 First Class ribbon 1939–1947 Second Class ribbon 1939–1947
Precedence
Next (higher)
Royal Red Cross (Class II)
Next (lower)
Kaisar-i-Hind Medal[1]
1st class Insignia of design awarded from 1939, with presentation case
The Order of British India was an order of merit established in 1837 by the East India Company for "long, faithful and honourable service".[2] The company's powers were removed after the Indian Mutiny, and the Order was incorporated into the British Honours System in 1859. The order became obsolete in 1947, after the partition of British India into the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.
^ORDER OF WEAR, Website of the UK government: Directgov, date accessed 4 January 2018.
^H. Taprell Dorling (1956). Ribbons and Medals. A. H. Baldwin & Son, London. p. 42.
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