The following regiments contain squadrons of Sikhs:--
10th Duke of Cambridge's Own Lancers (Hodson's Horse).
11th King Edward's Own Lancers (Probyn's Horse).
21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force) (Daly's Horse).
22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry (Frontier Force).
38th King George's Own Central India Horse.
39th King George's Own Central India Horse.
The following regiments are composed exclusively of Sikhs:--
14TH KING GEORGE'S OWN FEROZEPORE SIKHS. Raised July 30th, 1846.
BADGES.--The Plume of the Prince of Wales. The Royal and Imperial Cypher.
BATTLE HONOURS.--"Lucknow," "Ali Masjid," "Afghanistan 1878/79," "Defence of Chitral," "China 1900."
BATTLE HONOURS.--"China 1860/62," "Ahmad Khel," "Kandahar 1880," "Afghanistan 1878/80," "Suakim 1885," "Tofrek," "Chitral," "Punjab Frontier," "Tirah."
UNIFORM.--_Scarlet_, facings _emerald green_.
BATTLE HONOURS.--"Taku Forts," "Pekin," "Abyssinia," "Peiwar Kotal," "Charasiah," "Kabul 1879," "Kandahar 1880," "Afghanistan 1878/80," "Chitral."
MOTTO.--"_Aut viam inveniam aut faciam._"
BATTLE HONOURS.--"Delhi," "Lucknow," "Afghanistan 1878/80," "Chitral."
BATTLE HONOURS.--"Chitral," "Punjab Frontier," "China 1900."
35TH SIKHS. Raised 1798, disbanded 1882, reformed 1887.
BATTLE HONOURS.--"Punjab Frontier," "Malakand."
36TH SIKHS. Raised 1858, disbanded 1882, reformed 1887.
BATTLE HONOURS.--"Punjab Frontier," "Samara," "Tirah."
The 48th Pioneers, 51st Sikhs (Frontier Force), 52nd Sikhs (Frontier Force), 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force), and 54th Sikhs (Frontier Force) are Sikh regiments with other tribes intermixed.
The chief characteristic of the Rajput is his pride of blood. Representing as he does the higher military castes of India, his one ambition has always been to wield a sword, and wield it well. For ages in the past the Rajput maintained his supremacy in one or another part of India. Claiming descent from the sun and the moon, and later from those two heroes of the Mahabharata--Rama and Krishna--the Rajput maintains that his ancient and noble blood has flowed in the veins of kings from times more remote than any other history can record. That old but immortal legend of the Bhagavad Gîta, in which Prince Arjuna held a discourse with Krishna, the supreme Deity, in his war-chariot, drawn up between the opposing forces of Kauravas and Pandavas, is regarded by the Rajput as peculiarly his own. It is not to be wondered at, then, that, possessing from time immemorial this lofty poem, so sublime in its aspiration, so pure and tender in its piety, the Rajput has always been a man of high and noble sentiment and lofty ideals. He is, as the literal rendering of his name implies, the "Rajah's son," and in war has always displayed most noble and fearless qualities.