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Alternative spelling: Khaibar Rifles, Khaiber Rifles
The Khyber Rifles was an armed police or para-military unit, rather than a "regiment" in the Indian Army. "Other ranks" were locally recruited, with officers seconded from the Indian Army which had no control over them as they were paid for from the civil purse.<ref>Evers, Maureen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20191231040141/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/521391/ Major Edward HENLEY Born : Delhi, India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 11 February 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2019, archived. </ref>
== Chronology ==
==== Historical books online ====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924020369108#page/n12/mode/1up '' Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898''] by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/khyberriflesfrom00stew ''The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda''] by Jules Stewart 2005. [https://archive.org/details/khyberriflesfrom0000stew/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file], 2006 edition. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/khyberrifles18782015/page/n3/mode/2up ''An Illustrated History of Khyber Rifles 1878-2015''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema 2015. Archive.org
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/kingkhyberrifle00cogoog ''King - of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure''] by Talbot Mundy 1916 Archive.org. Note: missing the first two pages which may be read on the [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6066 gutenberg.org] version.
*: Audio [https://archive.org/details/king_kyber_rifles_1005_librivox LibriVox recording of ''King of the Kyber Rifles'', by Talbot Mundy]. Read by Brett W. Downey. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/readiance-king_kyber_rifles_1005_librivox 2nd Librivox file with Readiance audio-text synchronization files] Archive.org
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