The first recorded use of Artillery in India is at the Battle of Adoni in 1368. In the Deccans the Bahamani kings led by Mohammand Shah Bahamani used a train of Artillery against the Raja of Vijaya-nagar.

5(Bombay) Mountain Battery was raised as the 8th Company of the Golandaz Battalion, Bombay Foot Artillery on 28 September 1827. At present it forms part of 57 Field Regiment. 28 September is thus celebrated as ‘Gunners Day’.

In the aftermath of 1857, a majority of the Artillery units were disbanded with only the mountain batteries being retained for development in the rugged North West Frontier during Afghan Wars.

The School of Artillery was established in Kabul in 1923. The Mountain Artillery Training Centre came into being at Dehradun moving to Lucknow and later to Ambala. The Field Artillery Trainign Centre came up at Mathura.

It was the first battle of Panipat in 1526, that the Mughal Emperor Babur first used Artillery in North India to decisively defeat Ibrahim Lodhi, the Afghan king of Delhi. Artillery flourished extensively under the Mughal kings at Delhi, Tipu Sultan in Mysore and the Nizam in Hyderabad. It was the Sikhs however, who made the most effective use of Artillery in Indian history under Maharaja Ranjit Singh who raised it to a high standard of battle efficiency.

The first recorded endeavour to locate enemy guns in India can be traced back to the Battle of Kttor by Tipu Sultan. The modern Indian Surveillance and Target Acquisition (SATA) Gunner evolved from a humble beginning in 1925 when the ‘Nine Originals’ were put together under Captain EB Culverwell, MC to form the First Survey Section at the School of Artillery, Kabul. This nucleus by Augest 1942 had expanded to become the 1st Indian Survey Regiment.

Only three Indian Officers were Initially commissioned into Artillery from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. The first Indian officer to be commissioned into Artillery was Prem Singh Gyani followed by PP Kumaramangalam as ASKalha. They were posted to A Field Brigade raised on 15 Jan 1935 Banglore