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Author : Chandra B. Khanduri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042757321
History of Gurkha soldiers of Nepal from 1790-1820.
Author : Chandra B. Kandrui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785576347
Author : Heather Streets,Heather Streets-Salter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0719069629
This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As "martial races" these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies--a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire.
Author : Chris Bellamy
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848545151
The Gurkhas have fought on behalf of Britain and India for nearly two hundred years. As brave as they are resilient, resourceful and cunning, they have earned a reputation as devastating fighters, and their unswerving loyalty to the Crown has always inspired affection in the British people. There are also now up to 40,000 Gurkhas in the million-strong army of modern India. But who are the Gurkhas? How much of the myth that surrounds them is true? Award-winning historian Chris Bellamy uncovers the Gurkhas' origins in the Hills of Nepal, the extraordinary circumstances in which the British decided to recruit them and their rapid emergence as elite troops of the East India Company, the British Raj and the British Empire. Their special aptitude meant they were used as the first British 'Special Forces'. Bellamy looks at the wars the Gurkhas have fought this century, from the two world wars through the Falklands to Iraq and Afghanistan and examines their remarkable status now, when each year 11,000 hopefuls apply for just over 170 places in the British Army Gurkhas. Extraordinarily compelling, this book brings the history of the Gurkhas, and the battles they have fought, right up to date, and explores their future.
Author : JOHN. SADLER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399068237
Author : J.P. Cross,Buddhiman Gurung
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784380113
Is indepth interviews with Gurkhas soldiers past and present, depicts key military campaigns of the 20th century in the words of the men who were there. From WW2 to the present day, these eyewitness accounts include the lengthy battles against the Japanese in Burma, the action against communist rebebels in Malaya and Hong Kong, plus morerecent deployment of Gurkhas in the Falklands, Gulf, Balkans and East Timor.
Author : Bernardo A. Michael
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857285324
“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. The volume argues that these disputes arose out of older tribute, taxation and property relationships that left their territories perpetually intermixed and with ill-defined boundaries. It also seeks to describe the long-drawn-out process of territorial reordering undertaken by the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that set the stage for the creation of a clearly defined geographical template for the modern state in South Asia.
Author : Nilamber Chhetri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000840360
This book examines the nature of ethnopolitics evolving in the Darjeeling hills, located in the Eastern Himalayas. It highlights how in the wake of regional politics minorities pursue alternative avenues to attain rights and recognition. The book provides an astute analysis of competing claims of culture and identity engendered both by demands for regional autonomy and struggles for scheduled tribe status. It highlights the varied forms of ethnic demands often demonstrated through performative and discursive claims. The volume initiates a timely discussion on the discourse of recognition, politics of difference, and alterity which has wider implications and applications to understand South Asian realities. Drawing on rich empirical research, this work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, anthropology, sociology, tribal studies, ethnography, minority studies, and South Asian studies.
Author : Peter Wynn Kirby
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 184545538X
Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote. "Space" and "place" are also often analyzed without grappling much (if at all) with the social, political, and historical roots of spatial practice. This volume embarks upon the novel strategy of focusing on movement as a way of understanding social spaces, which offers a means to get beyond biases inherent in the social science of space. Ethnographic studies of social life in settings as varied as nomadic Mongolia and island Melanesia, as distinct as contemporary Tokyo and war-torn Palestine, challenge Western assumptions about the universality of "space" and allow concrete understanding of how life plays out over different socio-cultural topographies. In a world that is becoming increasingly "bounded" in many ways - despite enormous changes wrought by technological, ideological, and other social developments - Boundless Worlds urges a scholarly turn, away from the purely global, toward the human dimension of social lives lived in conditions of conflict, upheaval, remapping, and improvisation through movement.
Author : Sarah Besky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520277397
Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule. In this nuanced ethnography, Sarah Besky narrates the lives of tea workers in Darjeeling. She explores how notions of fairness, value, and justice shifted with the rise of fair-trade practices and postcolonial separatist politics in the region. This is the first book to explore how fair-trade operates in the context of large-scale plantations. Readers in a variety of disciplines—anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and food studies—will gain a critical perspective on how plantation life is changing as Darjeeling struggles to reinvent its signature commodity for twenty-first-century consumers. The Darjeeling Distinction challenges fair-trade policy and practice, exposing how trade initiatives often fail to consider the larger environmental, historical, and sociopolitical forces that shape the lives of the people they intended to support.
Author : Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker,Sir Francis Tuker
Publisher : London, Constable
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Gorkha (South Asian people)
ISBN : UOM:39015008439278
Author : John Cross,Buddhiman Gurung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025828620
The Gurkhas are a famed but mysterious band of warriors whose story has always been told by outsiders. For the first time, Gurkhas at war, the result of in-depth interviews with Gurkha soldiers past and present, depicts key military campaigns of the twentieth century in the words of the ment who were there.
Author : Bhanu Pathak,Damodar Adhikari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015052177485
Author : Vijay Kumar Manandhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015061554906
Author : Bernardo Ammedeus Michael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : PSU:000059030959