India. Army (Corporate Name)

Ascoli, D. Comp. to the Brit. Army, 1983: p. 41 etc. (After 1857 European troops in the service of the [East India] Company were absorbed into the regular army; the Indian native regiments were reorg. under their own Commander-in-Chief answerable to the crown through the Governor-General; from the mutiny through 1947 there existed side by side the Indian Army and the [British] "Army in India"; some units, e.g. Brigade of Gurkhas, transferred from the Indian Army to the British Army 1 Jan. 1948)

Reg. of the regiments and corps of the Brit. Army, 1972: p. xxxix, etc. (9 European battalions of the East India Co. incorp. into British Army; native army reorganized and became the Indian Army)

BLC (India. Army.)

Das, S.T. Indian military, 1969: p. 80-81, 89, 91 (the British East India Company, which began as a purely trading organization, quickly acquired territorial and administrative authority in India; the native watchkeepers it had to protect its trading stations ultimately developed into the 3 Presidency Armies of Madras, Bengal, and Bombay; the Company administered the 3 armies separately until 1748, when they were placed under a single commander-in-chief; in 1754 the first Royal troops were sent to India, and for the next 100 years the armies were divided into King's Troops, Company's European Troops, and Company's Indian Troops; in 1858, as a result of the Sepoy Rebellion, the government of the East India Company was terminated, India became a Crown Colony, and the troops in the service of the Company were transferred to the Crown; General Order no. 981 of 10-26-1894 abolished the Presidency Armies and created 4 commands (Punjab, Bengal, Madras, Bombay); the commands were subdivided into districts)