The 48th Indian Infantry Brigade was an Infantry formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in October 1941, at Secunderabad

Secunderabad

Secunderabad popularly known as the twin city of Hyderabad is located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh north of Hyderabad. Named after Sikandar Jah, the third Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty, Secunderabad was founded in 1806 AD as a British cantonment...

 in India and assigned to the 19th Indian Infantry Division.
It was then transferred to the 17th Indian Infantry Division and fought in the Burma Campaign

Burma Campaign

The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...

. It was attached to the 1st Burma Division in April 1942.

Formation

• 1/3rd Gurkha Rifles October 1941 to June 1942
• 1/4th Gurkha Rifles October 1941 to March 1943
• 8th Burma Rifles
  Burma Rifles
  The Burma Rifles were a regiment of the British Indian Army created in 1917. The regiment re-used the name of an unrelated earlier unit, the 10th Regiment Madras Infantry, which evolved into the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles....
  
   February 1942
• 3rd Burma Rifles
  Burma Rifles
  The Burma Rifles were a regiment of the British Indian Army created in 1917. The regiment re-used the name of an unrelated earlier unit, the 10th Regiment Madras Infantry, which evolved into the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles....
  
   February 1942
• 1/7th Gurkha Rifles February to August 1945
• 5/17th Dogra Regiment
  17th Dogra Regiment
  The 17th Dogra Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922, after the Indian government decided to reform the army moving away from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments...
  
   February to March 1942
• 1st The Cameronians March to April 1942
• 1/10th Gurkha Rifles April 1942
• 4/12th Frontier Force Regiment
  12th Frontier Force Regiment
  The 12th Frontier Force Regiment was part of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922. It consisted of five regular battalions; numbered 1 to 5 and the 10th Battalion. During the Second World War a further ten battalions were raised. In 1945 the prenomial "12th" was dropped when the British...
  
   January to October 1943 and March 1944 and January to August 1945
• 2/5th Gurkha Rifles May 1943 to September 1944
• 9th Border Regiment
  Border Regiment
  The Border Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 34th Regiment of Foot and the 55th Regiment of Foot....
  
   July 1943 to August 1944
• 1st West Yorkshire Regiment August 19444 to August 1945