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Gurkha, Including: Gurkha War, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti, Gorkha National Liberation Front, Gorkha National Liberation Front (C.K. Pra

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Gurkha, also spelled as Gorkha or Ghurka, are people from Nepal and northern India who take their name from the 8th century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath. His disciple Bappa Rawal, born Prince Kalbhoj/Prince Shailadhish, founded the house of Mewar, Rajasthan (Rajputana). Later descendants of Bappa Rawal moved further east to found the house of Gorkha, which in turn founded the Kingdom of Nepal. The legend continues that he told Bappa that he and his people would henceforth be called Gurkhas, the disciples of the Guru Gorkhanath, and their bravery would become world famous. He then instructed Bappa Rawal, and his Gurkhas to stop the advance of the Muslims, who were invading Afghanistan (which at that time was a Hindu/Buddhist nation). Bappa Rawal took his Gurkhas and liberated Afghanistan - originally named Gandhara, from which the present day Kandahar derives its name. He and his Gurkhas stopped the initial Islamic advance of the 8th century in the Indian subcontinent. 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


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  • ISBN-13: 9781242780288
  • Publisher: Hephaestus Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Hephaestus Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Sub Title: Gurkha War, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti, Gorkha National Liberation Front, Gorkha National Liberation Front (C.K. Pra
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1242780289
  • Publisher Date: 25 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 227 gr


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