Indian Army

Sub-units 18

Regiment Jammu and Kashmir Rifles
Army Indian Peace Keeping Force
Regiment 9th Horse (Deccan Horse)
Regiment 8th Light Cavalry
Regiment 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
Regiment Rajput Regiment
Regiment 20 Lancers (India)
Regiment 4th Horse (Hodson's Horse)
Battalion The Grenadiers
Regiment 41 Field Regiment (India)
Regiment 1889 Missile Regiment (India)
Regiment 21st Horse (Central India Horse)
Regiment 45th Cavalry (India)
Regiment 7th Light Cavalry
Detachment 24th Hazara Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)
Brigade 11th Indian Infantry Brigade
Regiment 18th Cavalry (India)
Division 15th Infantry Division (India)

People who served 15

Ved Prakash Malik General · 1959–2000 Khem Karan Singh General Ramakrishnan Vishwanathan Lieutenant Colonel

Arun Shridhar Vaidya General Brij Mohan Kaul General

Mogod Basappa Ravindranath Colonel

Harbaksh Singh General Kuldip Singh Chandpuri General Ranjit Singh Dyal Lieutenant General

Sher Jung Thapa Lieutenant Colonel

Sam Manekshaw Rajinder Singh Sparrow Major General Ardeshir Tarapore Lieutenant Colonel Kuldip Singh Brar Lieutenant General Zorawar Chand Bakhshi General

Strength and losses

Nominal Strength: 1,248,000
Nominal Aircraft: c. 310

Movements

1790 – March 18, 1792 Third Anglo-Mysore War
1798 – 1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
November 5, 1817 – April 9, 1819 Third Anglo-Maratha War
March 5, 1824 – November 29, 1885 Anglo-Burmese Wars
December 11, 1845 – March 9, 1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
April 5 – December 20, 1852 Second Anglo-Burmese War
May 10, 1857 – November 1, 1858 Indian Rebellion of 1857
1878 – 1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War
June 29, 1881 – November 24, 1899 Mahdist War
July 11 – September 13, 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War
November 7–29, 1885 Third Anglo-Burmese War
1891 Hunza–Nagar Campaign
1897 – 1898 Tirah campaign
December 1903 – September 1904 British expedition to Tibet
July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
November 6, 1914 – November 14, 1918 Mesopotamian campaign
September 28–29, 1917 Battles of Ramadi (1917)
May 6 – August 8, 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
June 10, 1940 – November 27, 1941 East African campaign (World War II)
June 10, 1940 – May 16, 1943 North African campaign
December 9, 1940 Attack on Nibeiwa
July 17–18, 1941 Twin Pimples raid
November 17, 1942 – May 13, 1943 Tunisian campaign
July 9, 1943 – May 2, 1945 Italian campaign
March 30, 1946 – October 16, 1949 Greek Civil War
October 22, 1947 – January 1, 1949 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948
November 3, 1947 Battle of Badgam
November 7, 1947 Battle of Shalateng
February 11 – August 14, 1948 Siege of Skardu
September 13–18, 1948 Indian annexation of Hyderabad
June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953 Korean War
December 1961 – December 19, 1961 Indian annexation of Goa
October 20 – November 21, 1962 Sino-Indian War
August 5 – September 23, 1965 Indo-Pakistani war of 1965
September 1–6, 1965 Operation Grand Slam
September 7–11, 1965 Battle of Phillora
September 8–10, 1965 Battle of Asal Uttar
September 10–11, 1965 Battle of Burki
September 11 – October 1, 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes
November 20–21, 1971 Battle of Garibpur
December 3–16, 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
December 4–7, 1971 Battle of Longewala
April 13, 1984 – November 25, 2003 Siachen conflict
July 29, 1987 – March 24, 1990 Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war
May 3 – July 26, 1999 Kargil War
May 22 – June 13, 1999 Battle of Tololing
July 3–8, 1999 Battle of Tiger Hill
May 5, 2020 – January 20, 2021 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes
April 24, 2025 2025 India–Pakistan border skirmishes