GHQ India

GHQ India
Formation sign of General Headquarters, India during the Second World War
Active	1903 to 1947
Country	British India
Part of	War Office Viceroy of India
Garrison/HQ	New Delhi

General Headquarters, India was the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, India, who commanded the British military forces in India, including the British Indian Army, after the Kitchener Reforms of 1903. It succeeded Headquarters, India which was the term in use initially after the three Presidency armies had been amalgamated into one force. The Commander-in-Chief answered to the civilian Viceroy of India.

Confusingly, in the official Volume II: India's Most Dangerous Hour, Major-General Stanley Kirby et al., 1958, the term "India Command" was repeatedly used.^[1] "India Command" was not defined, but Stanley Kirby et al. appeared to be referring to the British Indian Army in India; the British Army in India; and GHQ India, the three together, as a whole. A more correct term for these three entities together would have been the Army in India.