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Author : Chandra B. Khanduri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Re-discovered History of Gorkhas written by Chandra B. Khanduri and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Gurkha soldiers of Nepal from 1790-1820.
Author : Chris Bellamy
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848545150
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book The Gurkhas written by Chris Bellamy and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Heather Streets
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847793940
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Martial races written by Heather Streets and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire’s fiercest, most manly 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. Martial Races bridges regional studies of South Asia and Britain while straddling the fields of racial theory, masculinity, imperialism, identity politics, and military studies. Of particular importance is the way it exposes the historical instability of racial categories based on colour and its insistence that historically specific ideologies of masculinity helped form the logic of imperial defence, thus wedding gender theory with military studies in unique ways. Moreover, Martial Races challenges the marginalisation of the British Army in histories of Victorian popular culture, and demonstrates the army’s enduring impact on the regional cultures of the Highlands, the Punjab and Nepal. This unique study will make fascinating reading for higher level students and experts in imperial history, military history and gender history.
Author : J.P. Cross
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1784380113
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Gurkhas at War written by J.P. Cross and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of important twentieth century military conflicts through the eyes of the an elite force of South Asian soldiers. In depth interviews with Gurkhas soldiers past and present, depict key military campaigns of the twentieth 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 more ecent deployment of Gurkhas in the Falklands, Gulf, Balkans and East Timor.
Author : Nilamber Chhetri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000840360
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Ethnic Renewal in Darjeeling written by Nilamber Chhetri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bernardo A. Michael
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857285327
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Statemaking and Territory in South Asia written by Bernardo A. Michael and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Peter Wynn Kirby
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845451996
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Boundless Worlds written by Peter Wynn Kirby and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kailash Limbu
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1408705370
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Gurkha written by Kailash Limbu and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words. In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty-one days - one of the longest such sieges in the whole of the Afghan campaign. Kailash Limbu recalls the terrifying and exciting details of those thirty-one days - in which they killed an estimated one hundred Taliban fighters - and intersperses them with the story of his own life as a villager from the Himalayas. He grew up in a place without roads or electricity and didn't see a car until he was fifteen. Kailash's descriptions of Gurkha training and rituals - including how to use the lethal Kukri knife - are eye-opening and fascinating. They combine with the story of his time in Helmand to create a unique account of one man's life as a Gurkha. 'I was completely bowled over by Kailash's book and read it with a beating heart and dry mouth. I felt as though I was at his side, hearing the shells and bullets, enjoying the jokes and listening in the scary dead of night. The skill with which he has included his childhood and training is immense, always discovered with ease in the narrative: it actually felt as though I was watching, was IN a film with him. It brought me nearer than I have ever been not only to the mind of the universal soldier but to a hill boy of Nepal and a hugely impressive Gurkha. I raced through it and couldn't put it down: it reads like a thriller. If you want to know anything about the Gurkhas, read this book, and be prepared for a thrilling and dangerous trip' Joanna Lumley
Author : Sarah Besky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957601
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Darjeeling Distinction written by Sarah Besky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-11-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Colonel H. E. Weekes
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1781493332
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)
Download or read book History of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles written by Colonel H. E. Weekes and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb unit history. The project, originally privately printed, was initiated by Col. H. E. Weeks, but the final compilation and editing was carried through by several different officers of the Regiment.They made an excellent job of it.They cover the early days at Abbottabad, the Second Afghan War (when Capt John Cook won the Regiment's first VC at Peiwar Kotal), the Black Mountain expedition, the Hunza affair (when two more VCs were gained), and the services of the three battalions in the Great War (1st Bn at Gallipoli, 2nd Bn in Mesopotamia, and 3rd Bn in India and Mesopotamia). The text is accompanied by an Index, Apps: Roll of Honour (British officers ony), H & A, & list of former officers.
Author : Chandra B. Khanduri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Generals and Strategists written by Chandra B. Khanduri and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the lives of some army generals of India and the world.
Author : Vijay Kumar Manandhar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Comprehensive History of Nepal-China Relations Up to 1955 A.D. written by Vijay Kumar Manandhar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gurkhas at War written by John Cross and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bernardo Ammedeus Michael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Separating the Yam from the Boulder written by Bernardo Ammedeus Michael and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.B.R. Nicholson
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780850451962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Gurkha Rifles written by J.B.R. Nicholson and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1974-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gurkhas have a long and distinguished service record. This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the Gurkha rifles. It traces the 19th Century origins of the now famous Gurkha regiments and also covers their service history during the Great Mutiny of 1857 and the 3rd Afghan War (1919). During the two World Wars the Gurhah rifles performed countless tours of duty and their regimental battle honours listed in the book bear testimony to their extensive service. A series of full colour illustrations accompany the text.
Author : Saad Z. Hossain
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250209102
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday written by Saad Z. Hossain and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELLA "Saad Z. Hossain continues to blow through the flimsy walls of genre like a whirlwind with The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, sweeping science-fiction, fantasy, myth, and satire into the wildly imaginative vortex of his ever-expanding fictional universe of alternate djinn-history and futures. Hossain's wit and wry compassion create a vision of humanity's hurtling path through time and space as both farcical and epic, leaving a blazing trail of casualties and wonders."—Indra Das When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumber, he finds a world vastly different from what he remembers. Arrogant and bombastic, he comes down the mountain expecting an easy conquest: the wealthy, spectacular city state of Kathmandu, ruled by the all-knowing, all-seeing tyrant AI Karma. To his surprise, he finds that Kathmandu is a cut-price paradise, where citizens want for nothing and even the dregs of society are distinctly unwilling to revolt. Everyone seems happy, except for the old Gurkha soldier Bhan Gurung. Knife saint, recidivist, and mass murderer, he is an exile from Kathmandu, pursuing a forty-year-old vendetta that leads to the very heart of Karma. Pushed and prodded by Gurung, Melek Ahmer finds himself in ever deeper conflicts, until they finally face off against Karma and her forces. In the upheaval that follows, old crimes will come to light and the city itself will be forced to change. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Prajwal Parajuly
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651468
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Gurkha's Daughter written by Prajwal Parajuly and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number one bestseller in India and a shortlisted nomination for the Dylan Thomas Prize, The Gurkha's Daughter is a distinctive debut from a rising star in South Asian literature. This collection of stories captures the textures and sounds of the Nepalese diaspora through eight intimate, nuanced portraits, taking us from the hillside city of Darjeeling, India to a tucked away Nepalese restaurant in New York City. The daily struggles of Parajuly's characters reveal histories of war, colonial occupation, religious division, systemized oppression, and dispossession in the diverse geographical intersection of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and China. In a cruel remark by a wealthy doctor to her tenant shopkeeper, we hear the persistent injustice of the caste system; in the contentious relationship between a wealthy widow and her sister-in-law, we glimpse the restricted lives and submissive social roles of Nepalese women; and in a daughter's relationship with her father, we find a dissonance between modernity and tradition that has echoed through the generations in unexpected ways. Across different ethnicities, religions, and other social distinctions, the characters in these share a universal yearning, not just for survival but for a better life; one with love, dignity, and community. In The Gurkha's Daughter, Parajuly reveals the small acts of bravery--the sustaining, driving hope--that bind together the human experience.
