Bihar Light Horse

Alternative spelling Behar Light Horse

Badge of The Bihar Light Horse

The Bihar Light Horse in camp c.1908

Formed on 8th December 1862 as the Bihar Mounted Rifles. It became the Bihar Light Horse on 29th February 1884.

• Uniform - Khaki
• Facings - White
• Badge - Wild boar
• Motto "Necaspera terrent."

In 1888 "Captain Francis Carandini, who is in the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars has been appointed adjutant of the Behar Light Horse with the rank of major. The appointment is one much sought after, the Behar Light Horse being composed of gentlemen planters all splendidly mounted. The salary attached to the position is 820 rupees a month."

Regimental history

• History of the Behar Light Horse by W N R Kemp 1948. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01004061172 . This book was previously available Digital Library of India (handle/2015/238395) and perhaps may be available again online in the future.

Articles

• "Bihar Light Horse (the oldest volunteer cavalry regiment in India)" by H B Ellis. The Cavalry Journal, Volume 18, 1928, published in London. Index of titles in this issue.

External links

• Searchable British Library Catalogue Note spelling as either Bihar or Behar!
• Bihar Light Horse Wikipedia
• In Memory of The Bihar Light Horse valmayukuk.tripod.com
• Drawing of:"Volunteering in India--the Bahar Mounted Rifles of Bengal," from The Graphic, May 8, 1880 from this page of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website

Historical books online

• “The Behar Light Horse”, from The culture and manufacture of indigo; with a description of a planter's life and resources by Walter Maclagan Reid 1887 Archive.org
• “The Soubah Behar Mounted Rifles. An Epitomised History of the B.L.H.” from History of Behar indigo factories ; Reminiscences of Behar ; Tirhoot and its inhabitants of the past ; History of Behar Light Horse Volunteers by Minden Wilson 1908 Archive.org
• Sonepore reminiscences. Years 1840-96, page 295 by Harry E Abbott 1896. Archive.org