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Regarding other records about the Indian Army at the National Archives of India, a researcher commented: "There is a lot on the Indian Army at the NA of India. Most of it is of course part of the Army/Military Department collection but one can find some interesting files every now and then in the Home Department or the Foreign and Political Department. Unfortunately they do not allow researchers to make copies of the indexes and to the best of my knowledge there is no online reference. The only way to get to it is to go there yourself or engage a local researcher...Sadly they do not allow photography".<ref>Risaldar. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236286-murder-of-the-co-of-the-hyderabad-lancers/?do=findComment&comment=2434834 Murder of the CO of the Hyderabad Lancers] ''Great War Forum'' 17 August 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.</ref>
====Abhilekh Patal, digital collection of NAI====
[http://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/ Abhilekh Patal] hosts the digital collection of the National Archives of India. Includes a collection of digitised Defence documents. Registration is required to view the documents. '''Note''', a researcher has had issues with this website and although certain the website is legitimate, suspects a hacker may have been involved.<ref> ED, in Los Angeles. [<nowiki>http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=12780#p68454 </nowiki> National archives of India] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 2 January 2019. Includes comments about registering to view digital documents on Abhilekh Patal. Retrieved 3 January 2019. Now no longer available.</ref>
====Other records in India====
In Army terminology, the term lungi was usually used for the cloth the turban was constructed from, and a '''pagri''' usually referred to the cloth which was wound around a sun helmet, the latter worn both by British in the Indian Army, and in the British Army. However, in some contexts, a lungi and kullah together formed a pagri, and in other contexts the words lungi and pagri have the same meaning.
The lungis were of “regimental pattern” which often differed between officers and O.R.s, and also could differ from one decade to the next. <ref>PhilinYuma. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190701083528/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3500&start=15#p13441 ID question, Indian Army] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 17 June 2010, now archived. Retrieved 11 February 201627 August 2019.</ref>. This means it may be difficult to identify the regiment from the pattern.
===The kurta===
