The 37th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry was a regiment of the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

’s

Bengal Army The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire. The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company (EIC) until the Govern ...

, which had only become a separate regiment in 1824, and was later to become one of the regiments which took part in the

Indian Rebellion of 1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the fo ...

at Benares in 1857.

References

{{reflist Honourable East India Company regiments History of Varanasi Indian Rebellion of 1857 Military history of the British East India Company Bengal Presidency Bengal Native Infantry 1824 establishments in the British Empire