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Old 07-10-15, 05:21 PM
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Sadly, no caption that I recall. I'm sure I would have noted and kept it. This photo came from news coverage of this year's Republic Day parade in New delhi and I know that at least one and probably more of the units are former States Forces so I don't even think there is one man per regiment of the pre-47 units and the detective work needed to ID them all is more than my poor brain can contemplate.
Thanks for the information. Rather recent then.

It will indeed take people having more expertise then I have to identify them.
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Sadly, no caption that I recall. I'm sure I would have noted and kept it. This photo came from news coverage of this year's Republic Day parade in New delhi and I know that at least one and probably more of the units are former States Forces so I don't even think there is one man per regiment of the pre-47 units and the detective work needed to ID them all is more than my poor brain can contemplate.
Nice photograph thanks for sharing: The sowar ( in the middle) wearing green dress and red turban is from 9th Deccan Horse, the style of turban is different and was actually used when they were part of the Nizam's Hyderabad Contingent.
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Nice photograph thanks for sharing: The sowar ( in the middle) wearing green dress and red turban is from 9th Deccan Horse, the style of turban is different and was actually used when they were part of the Nizam's Hyderabad Contingent.
That is 10 more to go. Thanks.
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BTW. Did you see that the photographer did everything to get a nice picture of the different uniforms against a neutral background? Not to close together so you can see many details, lance pennons fluttering, .... Except the that he should have made them to make two passes to their left in order to avoid that ugly pipe.
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Hello Peter,
Yes, I'm afraid that the monochrome photographs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries really don't do justice to some magnificent uniforms.
Notwithstanding, I myself don't much like the Alkalak or the Kurta and it is important to remember that not all European officers, depending upon the particular regiment concerned, actually wore them in the nineteenth century anyway, of course, at the turn of the twentieth, they became almost a fashion statement.
When they were worn, even the plain field service order versions looked superb in particular with the given regiments colourful Lungi.
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Dress uniforms of modern Indian Army cavalry [armoured] regiments. This gives one at least a flavour of the uniforms of the Raj.
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Old 09-10-15, 02:10 PM
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A challenge to the rest of us: '10 to go'!

Frank, I agree that not all BOs wore the Indian styles but while I don't like the 'bib style' alkalak worn by the man from the 9th I personally find the kurta an attractive cut - very simple, so lending itself to 'accessorizing' with belts, embroidery and so on. But that's a personal aesthetic judgement on which we can easily differ!
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