TheImperial Cadet Corps (1901–1917) was acadet corps ormilitary school founded exclusively to give officer training to the princes and gentlemen ofBritish India. It was founded in November 1901 under the direct surveillance ofLord Curzon[1] atMeerut andDehradun. Major D. H. Cameron was made its first commandant andMaharajaPratap Singh of Idar was made its Honorary Commandant. The youths between 17 and 20 years were selected and admitted as Imperial Cadets; their education was to be at any one of the Chief's college atRajkot,Indore,Lahore,Ajmer orRaipur. The selected cadets had to join the corps at Meerut or Dehradun. Though the ICC failed in course of time and was closed in 1917, it nevertheless established the precedent for the officer training of Indians in India, which resulted in the founding of theIndian Military Academy at Dehradun in 1932.[2][3][4]