The Auxiliary Force (India) (AFI) was a part-time, paid volunteer military organisation within the British Indian Army, with recruits from British India.
Its units were entirely made up of European and Anglo-Indian personnel.
The AFI was created by the Auxiliary Force Act 1920[1] to replace the unpopular British section of the Indian Defence Force (IDF), which had recruited by conscription.
By contrast, the AFI was an all-volunteer force modelled after the British Territorial Army.
The Auxiliary Force features extensively in the plot of John Masters' novel Bhowani Junction, focusing on a community of Anglo-Indian railway workers at an Indian town in 1946, on the verge of the British withdrawal.