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Also from the mid-eighteenth century the [[Crown]] began to despatch regiments of the regular [[British Army]] to India to reinforce the Company’s armies. These troops are often referred to as ‘H.M.’s regiments’ or ‘Royal regiments’.
Following the [[Indian Mutiny]] of 1857-58 and the consequent abolition of the East India Company, its [[European regiments]] were amalgamated in 1860 with the British Army, but its ‘Native’ regiments were not. The three separate [[Presidency Armies]] therefore continued to exist, and their European officers continued to be listed as members of the Bengal, Madras or Bombay Army rather than the [[British Army]]. However, the Presidency Armies began to be described collectively as the Indian Army. Another change resulting from the Mutiny was that henceforward artillery was confined to the British Army.
In the 1890s, the separate Presidency Armies were at last abolished and a fully unified Indian Army came into being, but as before its British officers were not members of the British Army, though as young [[subalterns]] they did serve for a year with a British Army regiment as part of their training before taking up their permanent commissions with their [[Indian Army]] regiment.
