Mysore Transport Corps, Musalman. Mysore Lancers, Madrasi Musalman, 1910. 

Watercolour, signed and dated lower left by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1910.
The original for the illustration on p196 of Major G F MacMunn’s 'Armies of India', published in 1911.

Dismounted Indian officer standing beside a mounted lancer. The Mysore state forces included a lancer unit, reorganised in 1892 for the Imperial Service Troops (IST) scheme, and a transport unit. The IST had been established to train the troops of Indian princely states up to the standard of the Indian Army.