Hyderabad Contingent
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By the treaty of 1801 the Nizam of Hyderabad was obliged to maintain a military force at Hyderabad called the Nizam's Contingent or Nizam's Army. The subsequent treaty of 1853 renamed the force the Hyderabad Contingent.
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Regiments
Infantry
- 1st Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 2nd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 3rd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 4th Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 5th Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 6th Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
Cavalry
- 1st Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 2nd Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 3rd Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent
- 4th Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent
Artillery
Subordinate Medical Department
- Refer Apothecary-Training
External links
The Nizam's Contingent Google Books
Historical books online
- A History of the Hyderabad Contingent by Reginald George Burton (1905) Archive.org
- “Hyderabad:- the Nizam’s Contingent” Calcutta Review Volume 11 (January-June 1849), page 141 Google Books
- The Nizam: his history and relations with the British government, Volume I by George Briggs 1861(Google Books)
- "In the Nizam’s Country" Calcutta Review Volume 63, 1876 page 217 Archive.org
- Sir Henry Russell, Resident at Hyderabad Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906
