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| unit_name = 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry
| image = Mahratta infantry lovett.png | image_size = 300px
| caption = A subadar of the regiment (far left) with other Mahratta Infantry, painted in 1911.
| dates = 1768–1922
| country = [[British Raj|Indian Empire]]
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The '''103rd Mahratta Light Infantry''' were an infantry regiment of the [[British Indian Army]]. They could trace their origins to 1768, when they were raised as the 2nd Battalion, '''Bombay Sepoys'''. The regiment was first in action in the [[Mysore (1789-91)|Mysore Campaign]] during the [[Third Anglo-Mysore War]], quickly followed by the [[Battle of Seedaseer]] and the [[Battle of Seringapatam]] in the [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]]. Their next action was at [[Beni Boo Alli (1821) (Battle honour)|Beni Boo Ali]] against [[pirates]] in Eastern [[Arabia]] and the [[Persian Gulf]] region led the [[Honourable East India Company|East India Company]] to carry out a [[punitive expedition]] in 1819 to [[Ras al Khaimah]] which destroyed the pirate base and removed the threat from the Persian Gulf.

In 1848, the regiment took part in the [[Siege of Multan]] and the [[Battle of Gujrat]] in the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]]. The [[1868 Expedition to Abyssinia]] was next for the regiment. This was a [[punitive expedition]] carried out by [[armed forces]] of the [[British Empire]] against the Emperor [[Tewodros II of Ethiopia]], he had imprisoned several missionaries and two representatives of the [[United Kingdom|British]] government.<ref>Harold G. Marcus, ''The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia 1844–1913'', 1975 (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1995), p. 32</ref> During [[World War I]] they took part in the [[Mesopotamia Campaign]]. With the [[17th (Ahmednagar) Brigade]] they were at the [[Battle of Es Sinn]]. They were captured by the Turks with the [[6th (Poona) Division]] after the [[Siege of Kut]].

After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.<ref>Sumner p. 15</ref> In 1922, the 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry became the 1st Battalion [[5th Mahratta Light Infantry]]. After independence they were one of the regiments allocated to the [[Indian Army]].

==Predecessor names==
*2nd Battalion, Bombay Sepoys – 1768.
*1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry – 1796.
*3rd Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry – 1824.
*3rd Regiment of Bombay (Light) Infantry – 1871.
*3rd Bombay Light Infantry – 1901.
*103rd Maharatta Light Infantry – 1903.

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Refbegin}}
*{{cite book|last1=Barthorp|first1=Michael|last2=Burn|first2=Jeffrey|year=1979|title=Indian infantry regiments 1860–1914|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=0-85045-307-0}}
*{{cite book|last=Rinaldi|first=Richard A|year=2008|title=Order of Battle British Army 1914|publisher=Ravi Rikhye|isbn=978-0-9776072-8-0}}
*{{cite book|last=Sharma|first=Gautam|year=1990|title=Valour and sacrifice: famous regiments of the Indian Army|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=81-7023-140-X}}
*{{cite book|last=Sumner|first=Ian|title=The Indian Army 1914–1947|year=2001|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=1-84176-196-6}}
*Moberly, F.J. (1923). ''Official History of the War: Mesopotamia Campaign'', Imperial War Museum. {{ISBN|1-870423-30-5}}
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