Gurkhas - Kukri, Gurkha, Anglo-Nepalese War, Limbuwan Gorkha War, 3 Gorkha Rifles, Gorkhaland, Balbhadra Kunwar, Darjeeling Gork (Paperback)


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Kukri, Gurkha, Anglo-Nepalese War, Limbuwan Gorkha War, 3 Gorkha Rifles, Gorkhaland, Balbhadra Kunwar, Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, Gorkha regiments, Gorkha National Liberation Front, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, Gurkha Welfare Trust, Hat Terrai Gurkha, Gurkha Rifles, Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti, Nepal Rashtrabadi Gorkha Parishad, Sikkim Gorkha Party, Gurkha regiment. Excerpt: Gurkha ( or; also spelled Gorkha or Ghurka; Nepali: ) are people from Nepal who take their name from the 8th century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath. Gorkha District is one of the 75 districts of modern Nepal. Gurkhas are best known for their history in the Indian Army's Gorkha regiments, the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas and the Nepalese Army. Former Chief of staff of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, once famously said about Gurkhas: Sri Panch (5) Maharaja Dhiraj Prthivi Narayan ShahdevIn the Gurkha War (1814-1816) they waged war against the British East India Company army. The British were impressed by the Gurkha soldiers and after reaching a stalemate with the Gurkhas, made Nepal a protectorate. Much later, they were granted the right to freely hire them as mercenaries from the interior of Nepal (as opposed to the early British Gurkha mercenaries who were hired from areas such as Assam (i.e., the Sirmoor Rifles) and were then organised in Gurkha regiments in the East India Company army with the permission of then prime minister, Shree Teen (3) Maharaja (Maharana) Jung Bahadur Rana, the first Rana Prime-minister who initiated a Rana oligarchic rule in Nepal. Jung Bahadur was the grandson of the famous Nepalese hero and Prime minister Bhimsen Thapa. Originally Jung Bahadur and his brother Ranodip Singh brought a lot of modernisation to Nepalese society, the abolition of slavery, undermining of taboos regarding...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Kukri, Gurkha, Anglo-Nepalese War, Limbuwan Gorkha War, 3 Gorkha Rifles, Gorkhaland, Balbhadra Kunwar, Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, Gorkha regiments, Gorkha National Liberation Front, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, Gurkha Welfare Trust, Hat Terrai Gurkha, Gurkha Rifles, Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti, Nepal Rashtrabadi Gorkha Parishad, Sikkim Gorkha Party, Gurkha regiment. Excerpt: Gurkha ( or; also spelled Gorkha or Ghurka; Nepali: ) are people from Nepal who take their name from the 8th century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath. Gorkha District is one of the 75 districts of modern Nepal. Gurkhas are best known for their history in the Indian Army's Gorkha regiments, the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas and the Nepalese Army. Former Chief of staff of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, once famously said about Gurkhas: Sri Panch (5) Maharaja Dhiraj Prthivi Narayan ShahdevIn the Gurkha War (1814-1816) they waged war against the British East India Company army. The British were impressed by the Gurkha soldiers and after reaching a stalemate with the Gurkhas, made Nepal a protectorate. Much later, they were granted the right to freely hire them as mercenaries from the interior of Nepal (as opposed to the early British Gurkha mercenaries who were hired from areas such as Assam (i.e., the Sirmoor Rifles) and were then organised in Gurkha regiments in the East India Company army with the permission of then prime minister, Shree Teen (3) Maharaja (Maharana) Jung Bahadur Rana, the first Rana Prime-minister who initiated a Rana oligarchic rule in Nepal. Jung Bahadur was the grandson of the famous Nepalese hero and Prime minister Bhimsen Thapa. Originally Jung Bahadur and his brother Ranodip Singh brought a lot of modernisation to Nepalese society, the abolition of slavery, undermining of taboos regarding...

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University-Press.Org

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United States

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September 2013

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September 2013

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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30

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978-1-230-84712-2

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9781230847122

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1-230-84712-X



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