Khyber Rifles

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.

Chronology

• 1878 raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford
• 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

• Khyber Rifles Wikipedia
  
• The Khyber Rifles Khyber.org, archived page.
  
• Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI Wikipedia
  
• Photograph "Inside Khyber Rifles mess". flickr.com
• Postcard: Cavalrymen of the Khyber Rifles post stamped 5.6.1929 with message From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment to Adolf Feller of Switzerland. Library reference Fel_043211-RE, Fel_043211-VE. From ba.e-pics.ethz.ch

Historical books online

• Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org
• The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda by Jules Stewart 2005. 2nd file, 2006 edition. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• An Illustrated History of Khyber Rifles 1878-2015 by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema 2015. Archive.org
• Fiction
  • King - of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure by Talbot Mundy 1916 Archive.org. Note: missing the first two pages which may be read on the gutenberg.org version.

  Audio LibriVox recording of King of the Kyber Rifles, by Talbot Mundy. Read by Brett W. Downey. Archive.org. 2nd Librivox file with Readiance audio-text synchronization files Archive.org