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==== Historical books online ====
==== 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
*[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. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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
*[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
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Revision as of 10:31, 11 January 2021

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.[1]

Chronology

  • 1878 raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford[2]
  • 1881 command taken by Sardar Mohammad Aslam Khan (first Muslim commander)
  • 1887 renamed Khyber Rifles
  • 1919 disbanded
  • 1946 reconstituted from Afridi veterans
  • 1947 allocated to Pakistan

External links

Historical books online

Footnote

  1. Evers, Maureen. Major Edward HENLEY Born : Delhi, India Rootsweb India Mailing List 11 February 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  2. Later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years Officers Died website