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The 1st Battalion was formed as the [[Madras Railway Volunteers]] on the 21st August 1885 and the 2nd Battalion as the [[Southern Mahratta Railway Rifle Corps]] on the 20th October 1886. Amalgamated with the [[Bellary Volunteer Rifle Corp]], which was raised on the 24th July 1885, on the 28th January 1898. Reconstituted as the '''Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles on the 4th June 1910 and then the ''' were an [[32nd Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Riflesauxiliary regiment]] on the 1st April 1917 before becoming under the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles again on the 1st October 1920command.
==Chronology==
*'''1910''' on 4th June the [[Madras Railway Volunteers]] and [[Southern Mahratta Railway Rifle Corps]] amalgamated to become '''Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles''',<ref name="Jack">Jackson, Major Donovan ''India's Army'' (1940)</ref>
*'''1917''' renamed '''32nd Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles''', 1st April<ref name="Jack" />
*'''1920''' redesignated the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles on 1st October<ref name="Jack" />
==Details==
*'''Uniform''' - Khaki
*'''Facings''' - White
*'''Badge''' - Eight pointed star surmounted by a crown with a bugle encircled by a garter in the centre
*'''Motto''' - "One and all"
===Battalions===The Madras Railway Volunteers became 1st Battalion and the Southern Mahratta Railway Rifle Corps became 2nd Battalion. ==Notes==<references /> [[Category:Auxiliary RegimentsForce (India)]]
