@prefix ia:     <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army/> .
@prefix skos:   <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix dct:    <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix owl:    <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs:   <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:    <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix wd:     <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .

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# Indian Army service vocabulary
#
# A controlled vocabulary of the forces of British India as found in
# official and historical personnel records - the Indian Army and its
# regiments and corps, with the Royal Indian Navy and Royal Indian Air Force
# alongside them.
#
# WHY A SCHEME OF ITS OWN, AND NOT PART OF military-army. The Indian Army was
# a distinct force under the Crown with its own regiments, its own list and
# its own commissioning, not a component of the British Army. Holding it
# inside the British Army scheme would assert a relationship that did not
# exist.
#
# IT ENDED IN 1947. These formations appear in the honours lists up to
# partition and then stop; the concepts stay, because the record of the years
# in which they existed does not.
#
# IDENTITY. As in the sibling schemes, the concept is identified by its full
# term (a readable slug URI) and skos:prefLabel; an abbreviation is a
# PROPERTY (skos:notation), not the identifier.
#
# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY ABSENT. Madras, Bombay, Punjab and Sikh name provinces,
# cities and communities as well as regiments, and in most documents far more
# often. Only the unambiguous forms are listed - "Punjab Regiment", not
# "Punjab" - so that a vocabulary lookup cannot mistake a place for a
# formation, or a civil servant for a soldier.
#################################################################

<https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army>
    a owl:Ontology, skos:ConceptScheme, schema:DefinedTermSet ;
    dct:title        "Indian Army service vocabulary"@en ;
    dct:description  "Controlled vocabulary of the forces of British India - the Indian Army with its regiments and corps, the Royal Indian Navy and the Royal Indian Air Force - as named in official and historical personnel records."@en ;
    skos:prefLabel   "Indian Army service vocabulary"@en ;
    owl:versionIRI   <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army/0.1> ;
    owl:versionInfo  "0.1.0-draft" ;
    dct:modified     "2026-08-13"^^xsd:date ;
    dct:license      <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> ;
    dct:source       <https://www.thegazette.co.uk/> ;
    skos:scopeNote   "Scope: the forces of British India as named in gazetted records, to 1947. British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force terms belong in their own schemes (military-army, military-navy, military-raf). The Brigade of Gurkhas as it continued in British service after 1947 is in military-army; the Gurkha Rifles as regiments of the Indian Army are here."@en ;
    skos:hasTopConcept
        ia:formation ,
        ia:role .

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# Categories
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ia:formation
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel    "Formation or corps"@en ;
    skos:definition   "A force, corps, regiment or service named in records (not a role held by a person)."@en ;
    skos:inScheme     <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:topConceptOf <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> .

ia:role
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel    "Role"@en ;
    skos:definition   "A rank, appointment or trade held by a person. Reserved; populated as the record is read."@en ;
    skos:inScheme     <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:topConceptOf <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> .

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# Forces, corps and regiments
#################################################################

ia:indian-army
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Indian Army"@en ;
    skos:editorialNote "The force itself, where the entry names no particular regiment."@en ;
    skos:exactMatch wd:Q1476196 ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:gurkha-rifles
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Gurkha Rifles"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:frontier-force
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Frontier Force"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:indian-medical-service
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Indian Medical Service"@en ;
    skos:notation  "IMS" ;
    skos:exactMatch wd:Q6023573 ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:punjab-regiment
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Punjab Regiment"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:indian-army-ordnance-corps
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Indian Army Ordnance Corps"@en ;
    skos:notation  "IAOC" ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:royal-indian-army-service-corps
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Royal Indian Army Service Corps"@en ;
    skos:notation  "RIASC" ;
    skos:altLabel  "Indian Army Service Corps"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:indian-engineers
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Indian Engineers"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:royal-indian-navy
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Royal Indian Navy"@en ;
    skos:notation  "RIN" ;
    skos:editorialNote "A separate service from the Indian Army; here rather than in military-navy because it was a force of British India, not of the United Kingdom."@en ;
    skos:exactMatch wd:Q1990041 ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:indian-armoured-corps
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Indian Armoured Corps"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:mahratta-light-infantry
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Mahratta Light Infantry"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:royal-indian-air-force
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Royal Indian Air Force"@en ;
    skos:notation  "RIAF" ;
    skos:exactMatch wd:Q3736158 ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:indian-signal-corps
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Indian Signal Corps"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .

ia:indian-artillery
    a skos:Concept, schema:DefinedTerm ;
    skos:prefLabel "Indian Artillery"@en ;
    skos:inScheme  <https://id.honoria.co.uk/def/military-indian-army> ;
    skos:broader   ia:formation .