4TH RAJPUTS RAISED IN 1798 AS 2ND BATTALION OF 16TH

BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY –RENUMBERED 33RD BENGAL NATIVE

INFANTRY IN 1824-FOUGHT AT LASWARI AGAINST MARATHAS IN
1803 ,BHURTPORE , FIRST AFGHAN WAR, FIRST SIKH WARBEING
STATIONED IN HOSHIARPUR IN LOYAL PUNJAB THE BATTALION
SURVIVED 1857- ALTHOUGH DISARMED BY NICHOLSON-
BATTALION OF SIR SANDEMANS FATHER AS WELL AS SIR ROBERT
SANDEMAN-RENUMBERED 4TH BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY IN 1861
CLASS COMPOSITION IN 1883-HAD THREE RAJPUT COMPANIES
OUT OF 8 IN 1883 MADE 100 % HINDUSTANI HINDU RAJPUT IN 1893
EXPERIMENT WHERE SOME UNITS WERE MADE 100 % MUSLIM OR
100 % HINDU BECAME 4TH PRINCE ALBERT VICTORS REGIMENT
OF BENGAL INFANTRY AND 4TH PRINCE ALBERT VICTORS OWN
RAJPUT REGIMENT ONLY IN 1897 AS A RECRUITING GIMMICK
AFTER ALL THREE PRESIDENCY ARMIES WERE MERGED IN 1895-
FOUGHT SECOND AFGHAN WAR AND THIRD BURMA WAR TOOK
NOMINAL PART IN FIRST WORLD WAR AS WAS NOT INVOLVED IN
ANY MAJOR FIGHTING , FOUGHT A MINOR BATTLE AT AHWAZ IN
PERSIA IN 1915 ,AND MOSTLY ON LINE OF COMMUNICATION
DUTIES IN MESOPOTAMIA.MUSLIMS WERE INTRODUCED IN CLASS
COMPOSITION AFTER WW ONE-RENUMBERED 4TH BATTALION
7TH RAJPUTS IN 1922 Deployed in Egypt-1939 late –fought at Siddi
Barani and later in Battle of Alamein , Cyprus , Sudan in Second World
War and in guarding oil pipelines in Iraq from 1943 onwards- allotted to
Indian Army in 1947