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|colors=Red; faced dark green.
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|battles=[[Third Anglo-Maratha War]]<br>[[Second Burmese War]]<br>[[World War I]]
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The '''96th Berar Infantry''' were an infantry regiment of the [[British Indian Army]]. They could trace their origins to 1797, when they were raised as the 2nd Battalion of the Aurangabad Division for the [[Princely state]] of [[Hyderabad State|Hyderabad]]. Until 1853, the regiment was part of the [[Nizam|Nizam of Hydrabad's Army]] then after signing of a treaty with the then Governor General of India, The Nizam's Contingent was renamed as the Hyderabad Contingent and became part of the regular Indian Army.

The regiment fought in the [[Battle of Mahidpur]] during the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]]. They then participated in the [[Hatkar#The_Hatkar_Rebellion_of_1819|Siege of Nowah]] and the later [[Hatkar#The_Hatkar_Rebellion_of_1819|Capture of Nowah]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nanded District|access-date=2009-09-28|publisher=maharashtra.gov|url=http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Nanded/his1.html}}</ref> They next participated in the annexation of Burma during the [[Second Burmese War]]. They next took part in the [[Central India Campaign (1858)|Central India Campaign]] after the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]].

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 96th Berar Infantry became the 2nd Battalion, [[19th Hyderabad Regiment]]. This regiment was allocated to the [[Indian Army]] after independence.

==Predecessor names==
*2nd Battalion, Aurangabad Division - 1797
*2nd Battalion, Berar Infantry
*3rd Regiment of Infantry, [[Nizam|Nizam's Army]] - 1826
*3rd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent - 1854
*96th Berar Infantry - 1903<ref>''Quarterly Indian Army List January 1919'', p. 1391</ref>

==References==
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*{{cite book|last=Barthorp|first=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=0-9776072-8-3}}
*{{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}}
*''Quarterly Indian Army List January 1919''. Army Headquarters, India. Calcutta, 1919.

[[Category:British Indian Army infantry regiments]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1797]]
[[Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1922]]
[[Category:Military history of the Madras Presidency]]
[[Category:Indian World War I regiments]]

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