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Bengal Lancers may refer to numerous regiments of the
British Indian Army The Indian Army was the force of British Raj, British India, until Indian Independence Act 1947, national independence in 1947. Formed in 1895 by uniting the three Presidency armies, it was responsible for the defence of both British India and ...
, many continuing in the
Indian Army The Indian Army (IA) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Land warfare, land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head ...
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Individual units

* 1st Bengal Lancers * 2nd Bengal Lancers * 4th Bengal Lancers * 6th Bengal Lancers *
7th Lancers The 7th Hariana Lancers was a cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. It was raised in Meerut and Cawnpore in 1846 by Captain J. Liptrott as a regiment of Bengal irregular cavalry. The regiment was amalgamated with the 6th King Edward's Own ...
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8th Lancers The 8th Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the Bengal Army (1846-1895) and the British Indian Army until 1921 when it was amalgamated 5th Cavalry regiment to form the 3rd Cavalry regiment. Origin and history The 8th Lancers were the last caval ...
* 10th Bengal Lancers * 11th Bengal Lancers * 13th Bengal Lancers *
14th Bengal Lancers The 14th Murray's Jat Lancers, also sometimes known as the Murray's Jat Horse, was a cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army. In 1921 it was renamed as 20th Lancers, and after Partition of India in 1947 it eventually became 20 Lancers (India ...
* 17th Bengal Lancers * 19th Bengal Lancers * 41st Bengal Lancers


See also

* The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (book) *
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film) ''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' is a 1935 American adventure film starring Gary Cooper, directed by Henry Hathaway, and written by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, and Achmed Abdullah. The setting ...
* Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (television series) * Bengal Lancers in the St. Louis Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball


Further reading

* {{sia British Indian Army cavalry regiments Armoured and cavalry regiments of the Indian Army from 1947