The 11th Rajputs was an infantry regiment of the Bengal Army and later of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1825, when they were the 2nd Extra Battalion, Bengal Native Infantry. In 1828, they were renamed the 70th Bengal Native Infantry and a number of changes in name followed - the 11th Bengal Native Infantry 1861–1885, the 11th Bengal Infantry 1885–1897, the 11th (Rajput) Bengal Infantry 1897–1901, the 11th Rajput Infantry
1901–1903. Finally in 1903, after the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army - the 11th Rajputs.[1]
After World War I the Indian government reformed the army again moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.[2] The 11th Rajputs now became the 5th Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment. After independence this was one of the regiments allocated to the new Indian Army.[3]