India Title Badge. 3rd Class 'Khan Sahib'. GV issue. Silver and enamel (Sardar Samundar Khan 2nd Jany. 1928)

The reverse officially named, in engraved cursive script, on three lines

Award verification: The recipient Samundar Khan, was decorated with the Indian Title Badge on 2 January 1928, the award being published in the 'New Year' Honours List (British India) that was published in the Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore) issue of 6 June 1928.

Per above referenced source, the recipient, already held the honorific local title of 'Sardar' (used in the context of Chief of a local tribe), and became Khan Sahib Sardar Khan, chief of the Borazi Tribe of Sibi, Baluchistan (now Balochistan, Pakistan).

The Borazis of Sibi are a trans-frontier tribe of Afghan Pushtun / Baluchi ethnicity, located in the trans-frontier area of Sibi, Bal, that borders Afghanistan.

While the Title Badges were a prolific series of awards, they remain relatively scarce seen on the market, in part due to a combination of returns of awards to the issuing authority that mirrored the rise in nationalist sentiment in the years leading to independence, and those destroyed during the latter years of the British Raj, and those 'lost' during the turmoil of partition, and those melted down in the silver bazaars.....

Recommendations (citations) for the ITB badges, if extant, are held at The National Archives of India, in New Delhi  

An interesting example to a tribal chief!

Enamel is all intact

Condition: VF

Code: 25989