They could trace their origins to 1824, when the Sylhet Light Infantry was raised.
It became the 44th Merwara Infantry in 1903, after the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army.
Further reforms of the army were undertaken after World War I and nine single battalion regiments were disbanded.
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