The various rank of the Indian Army are listed below in descending order:

  1. Commissioned Officers
    • Field Marshal1
    • General (the rank held by Chief of Army Staff)
    • Lieutenant-General
    • Major-General
    • Brigadier
    • Colonel
    • Lieutenant-Colonel
    • Major
    • Captain
    • Lieutenant
    • Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs)
    • Subedar Major/Honorary Captain3
    • Subedar/Honorary Lieutenant3
    • Subedar Major
    • Subedar
    • Naib Subedar
  2. Soldiers of the Indian Army's Assam Regiment stand guard near the India Gate war memorial in Delhi.Non Commissioned Officers (NCOs)
    • Regimental Havildar Major2
    • Regimental Quarter Master Havildar2
    • Company Havildar Major
    • Company Quarter Master Havildar
    • Havildar
    • Naik
    • Lance Naik
    • Sepoy
Notes:
  1. Only two officers have been made Field Marshall so far: Field Marshal K M Cariappa—the first Indian Commander-in-Chief (a post since abolished)—and Field Marshal S H F J Manekshaw, the Chief of Army Staff during the Army in the 1971 war with Pakistan.
  2. This has now been discontinued. Non-Commissioned Officers in the rank of Havildar are elible for Honorary JCO ranks.
  3. Given to Outstanding JCO's Rank and pay of a Lieutenant, role continues to be of a JCO.

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