When an impurity ion is introduced substitutionally into one of the sublattices of an alkali-halide crystal, its neighbors are no longer at centers of inversion symmetry. A non-vanishing first order electronic polarizability is thereby induced in the crystal, which gives rise to a first order Raman scattering of light. We present the theory of such an impurity induced first order Raman effect in crystals of the rocksalt structure. The form of the electronic polarizability tensor is determined from symmetry and general invariance conditions. The non-zero elements are left as parameters in the theory, to be determined from a comparison of theory with experiment. The dependence of the Raman spectrum on the polarization of the incident and scat...