The Order of British India was a medal

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 and chivalric order

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 which was bestowed by the East India Company

British East India Company

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 for "long, faithful and honourable service", beginning in 1837. The Company's powers were removed after the Indian Mutiny, and the Order was incorporated into the British

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 honours system in 1859. The order became obsolete in 1947, after the partition of British India betwixt the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan

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The Medal

The Order was awarded in two classes: first and second class. The recipients of the second class were entitled to the post nominal title Bahadur (hero) and recipients of the first class were entitled to use the title Sardar Bahadur (heroic leader), and the post nominal letters OBI. The order was highly regarded and was awarded for distinguished service on a particular campaign, but was also often awarded to officers for between 20 and 30 years service.

First Class

• Sardar Bahadur Captain Kalandar Khan Khattak of Jalozai-Noshera, (Cheif of Khattaks, OBI & Zailidar of Peshawar, Dehli & Lahore)
• Sardar Bahadur Subedar-Major"Bahadour" Oomar Khan, OBI (1st Class)2nd Baluch 29th Regt.BO;N.I. 1880.
• Lt Gen Raosahib M. Ellapa Bahadur OBI (1st Class)
• Capt Sardar Zain Muhammad Khan,Sardar Bahadur,OBI
• Lt Col Sardar Bahadur Aman Singh Jodha,OBI,IOM Jodhpur Lancers (IOM on 23 September 1918 at Haifa)
• Colonel (Sardar Bahadur) Hashim Ali Khan
  Hashim Ali Khan
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  , Nawab Mir Hahsim Nawaz Jung Bahadur,SB OBI (1st Class) (1897)
• Subedar Major Bahadur Singh Atwal, SB, OBI (1st Class)
• HE Lieutenant Colonel Raja Atta Ullah Khan, Sardar Bahadur, OBI (1st Class) (1868), IOM
• Captain (Sardar Bahadur) Muhammad Ismail, IOM (3rd Class 1897). OBI (1st Class 1917), British Indian Army
• Sardar Bahadur Captain Hazara Singh Bahad, OBI (1st Class)
• Subedar Major Jodh Singh, Sardar Bahadur OBI (1st Class), 14th Punjab Regiment British Indian Army.
• Subedar Hari Singh Thapa Sardar Bahadur, OBI (1st Class)
• Captain Raja Larasahib Khan, OBI (1st Class 1939)
• Subedar Major Raja Nazar Muhammad Khan IOM Bahadur.
• Captain Rup Singh Sardar Bahadur, OBI (1st Class)
• Captain Nar Bahadur Gurung, SB, OBI (1st Class), MC
• Sardar Bahadur Dr. Kartar Singh Grewal, OBI (1st Class 1939), (Honorary Captain, Retired)
• lt col Anop Singh, Jodhpur Lancers

• Captain Inayat Ullah Asmie, Bahadur OBI, (died 1947, Lahore), 10 Baluch Regiment, served in 2 World Wars, as Subedar and Captain (King's Commission).

Photo: Late Captain Inayat Ullah Asmie, Bahadur OBI

• Honorary Captain Mihr Din (Sardar Bahadur), OBI (1st Class 1918)

Second Class

• Capt. Syed Rasool Shah S/O Syed Fazal Shah, OBI (2nd Class), RIASC, PJO_31511.
• Subedar Maima Singh Bahadur IOM, OBI (2nd Class) 15th Bengal Infantry.
• Subedar Bahadur Niaz Muhammad Khan, OBI (2nd Class), IOM. 4/7 Rajput Regiment, British Indian Army
• Subedar-Major Bahadur Jagindar Singh Saini, OBI (2nd Class), IOM (2nd Class)
• Lieutenant Mohammed Abdul Hafiz, 61st Pnrs., BAHADUR, OBI, IDSM, awarded on August 2, 1919 for "gallant and distinguished services in the Field" on October 11, 1917.
• Subedaier Bahadur Humail Khan, OBI (2nd Class)
• Subedar Richhpal Singh Bahadur, OBI (2nd Class)
• Subedar Major/Capt Bishon Singh Kathait 5/9 G/r/OBI/ Sardar bhadur 2 world war

Unknown Class

• Captain Nawab Khan, OBI
• Rao Bahadur Colonel Thakur Balu Singh ji Inderpura, OBI
• Captain Mubarak Ali Khan, OBI
• Sub Major Syed Nazar Mohammad Shah, OBI Bahadar