16th LIGHT CAVALRY, NATIVE OFFICER – 1934

Raised in  1784 as– 3rd Regiment of Madras Native Cavalry

1784 – 1st Regiment of Madras Native Cavalry

1786 – 4th Regiment of Madras Native Cavalry

1788 – 2nd Madras Native Cavalry

1819 – 2nd Madras Light Cavalry

1886 – 2nd Regiment of Madras Lancers

1901 – 2nd Madras Lancers

1903 – 27th Light Cavalry

After the 1920 reform, it became the 16th Light Cavalry in 1922.

On Partition of India in 1947, the regiment the regiment becomes part of the new Army of India, as an armored unit, maintaining its name.