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[[Image:Hyderabad Contingent Infantry.jpg|thumb|280px|Hyderabad Contingent Infantry]]
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'''. This was also known as the '''Subsidiary Force, Hyderabad'''.<ref>acanthus [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=10484&sid=344fb19a927723338b37ac145ab2d1a8#p53793 Army of India question] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 20 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.</ref> The subsequent treaty of 1853 renamed the force the '''Hyderabad Contingent'''.
==Regiments==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/calcuttareviewv01unkngoog#page/n234/mode/2up "In the Nizam’s Country"] ''Calcutta Review Volume 63, 1876'' page 217 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/368/mode/1up/ Sir Henry Russell, Resident at Hyderabad] Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906
== References ==
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[[Category:Indian Army]]
[[Category:Hyderabad Contingent| ]]
