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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.<ref>Email to User:Maureene reported in this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2013-02/1360563403 post]</ref>
== Chronology ==