I Corps (India)

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Active 1965-Present Branch Indian Army Garrison/HQ Mathura		Country India Role Strike Corps
Part of South Western Command (India)

For the First World War corps, see I Corps (British India)

I Corps, headquartered at Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, is a military field formation of the Indian Army, created in 1965. It was still being raised when it was despatched to the front in 1965. It conducted a counteroffensive during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. In the 1971 war against Pakistan, it took part in the Battle of Basantar.

During 1971 at least one source cites the corps composition as:

X Sector

Indian 36th Infantry Division (8, 115 Brigades initially)

39th Infantry Division

54th Infantry Division

Today it is a 'Strike Corps' within the Indian Army's South Western Command (Jaipur, Rajasthan).

The I Corps of South Western Command, created in 1965 and headquartered at Mathura, consists of the following 3 army divisions:

4th Infantry Division (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh), also called "Red Eagle'

6th Mountain Division (Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh)

33rd Armoured Division ((Hisar Military Station, Haryana)) consists of 33 Artillery Brigade, 39th Armoured Brigade (formerly 39th Mechanised Brigade), 57 Armoured Brigade (formerly 57th Mechanised Brigade) and 88 Armoured Brigade (formerly 88th Mechanised Brigade). 8th Battalion (Brigade of the Guards) in a mechanised profile, was assigned to 57 Armoured Brigade of 33 Armoured Division

Note

42 Artillery Division (India), HQ Ambala Cantonment, Haryana appears to be part of II Corps of Western Command and not the I Corps of South Western Command

627 (I) Independent Mechanised Air Defence Brigade headquartered at Kota in Rajasthan seems to be part of X Corps and not the I Corps. Both I Corps and X Corps are part of South Western Command.

References

I Corps (India) Wikipedia

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