Gorkha
Author | : Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker |
Publisher | : London, Constable |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1957 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015008439278 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
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Author | : Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker |
Publisher | : London, Constable |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1957 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015008439278 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Author | : Tim I Gurung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 014346065X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780143460657 |
Rating | : 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
The history of the Gurkha serviceman is one that goes beyond soldiering and bravery-it is in equal measure a story of the resilient human spirit, and of a tiny community that carved for itself a niche in world history.
Author | : Chris Bellamy |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2011-04-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781848545151 |
ISBN-13 | : 1848545150 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
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 | : Tony Gould |
Publisher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN-10 | : 1862073651 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781862073654 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
A comprehensive history of the Gurkhas, which remains to this day a unique and much-loved regiment, and which played a crucial role in the British Empire.
Author | : Rachna Bisht Rawat |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2021-12-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789354921261 |
ISBN-13 | : 9354921264 |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1971 Indo-Pak war, revisit its battlefields through stories of bravehearts from the army, navy and air force who fought for a cause that meant more to them than their own lives Why do the Gorkha soldiers of 4/5 GR attack a heavily defended enemy post with just naked khukris in their hands? Does Pakistan find out the real identity of the young pilot who, after having ejected from a burning plane, calls himself Flt Lt Mansoor Ali Khan? What awaits the naval diver who cuts made-in-India labels off his clothes and crosses into East Pakistan with a machine gun slung across his back? Why is a twenty-one-year-old Sikh paratrooper being taught to jump off a stool in a deserted hangar at Dum Dum airport with a Packet aircraft waiting nearby? 1971 is a deeply researched collection of true stories of extraordinary human grit and courage that shows you a side to war that few military histories do.
Author | : Prajwal Parajuly |
Publisher | : Quercus |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781623651466 |
ISBN-13 | : 1623651468 |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
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.
Author | : John Parker |
Publisher | : Headline |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781472202604 |
ISBN-13 | : 1472202600 |
Rating | : 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Their ferocity is as legendary as their loyalty to the British Monarch and their regimental histories are crammed with acts of incredible bravery and sacrifice. Their reputation as fearsome fighting men remains undisputed and the mere threat of their kukri knives has put the fear of God into opposing forces throughout the world. John Parker's book is a fascinating testimony to the Gurkhas - a fighting force that stands dramatically apart in British military history.
Author | : Barun Roy |
Publisher | : Barun Roy |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2012-12-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789810786465 |
ISBN-13 | : 9810786468 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
A comprehensive socio-political study of the Gorkha people and their demand for the separate state of Gorkhaland
Author | : H. T. Prinsep |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2007-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 1846771692 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781846771699 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
WHEN BRITON FOUGHT GURKHA No-one who has an interest in British military history is ignorant of the role of the Gurkhas. Their loyalty and courage is as legendary as the affection with which they are regarded by the British military and civilians alike. It was not always so. At the beginning of the 19th century, as the British empire inexorably expanded its inflfl uence to embrace the Indian Sub-Continent, the Nepalese empire itself covered huge areas of Northern India - stretching at times from the borders of the Sikh kingdom in the west to the foothills of the Himalayas where they meet the Bay of Bengal. When these two empires clashed, the British certainly experienced an unpleasant surprise. For they confronted warriors of astonishing bravery, gallantry and ferocity, with no mean grasp of tactics. So began a hard-fought, touch-and-go war between enemies who would one day be inseparable friends. This is the story of that war!
Author | : Mahip Chadha |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781467067393 |
ISBN-13 | : 1467067393 |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Soljer Soljer is a story based on an imaginary infantry battalion of the Third Gorkha Rifles — the Sixth battalion. The composition, training, camaraderie, and duties in all the other infantry battalions of our Army are almost the same except that certain customs undergo a change as they adapt to the ethnicity of the troops in that Regiment. So the visible changes would be the manner of the battle cry, salutation, greeting, decorum in festivity with the troops, or ceremonials in the Officer's Mess. There is no difference in the dogged determination or the ferocity in the will of troops of these troops in completing any mission allotted to their battalions! Colonel Mahip Chadha, whom I have not only known from our training days, but served with; has very clearly brought out the joys of the simple infantry life and the deeply embedded love, affections and stoic ethnic involvement that officers enjoy with their men. This is brotherhood in its purest form. The story is of Surinder Singh Sahni and his son Jaskaran who as father and son serve in the same battalion. Brigadier Sahni resigns from the Army due to domestic issues while his son enjoys a brief and very modern marriage thanks to considerate parents. Brigadier Sahni has to face terms with reality when he reads about the Indian POWs and later when his son is declared missing believed killed after a skirmish with militants from POK. His misery is compounded when his daughter in law has to suffer further privations, till she decides to fight the establishment by becoming a lawyer. The sacrifices made by the cowherds in rescuing Jaskaran are poignant and are noble.Jaskaran returns home as his amnesia wears off in another accident. His mother like all mothers refuses to believe that he is dead.There is a God in heaven who reunites the family. The question which plagues Jaskaran is--whether his countrymen recognised his loss-- The book has a sprinkling of humour and the reader laughs at the follies of life. Mahip has told his story as an infantry officer would — straight, to the point and without beating about the bush which makes enjoyable reading! Lieutenant General G S Negi PVSM AVSM* VSM Erstwhile Colonel The Third Gorkha Rifles The Indian Army