Imperial Warriors by Tony Gould

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Imperial Warriors by Tony Gould

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Summary

Gurkhas have been recruited into the British and Indian armies since 1814-15 the year the East India Company went to war with Nepal and this study examines the many legends that have grown up around them.

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Imperial Warriors by Tony Gould

Gurkhas have been recruited into the British and Indian armies since 1814-15 the year the East India Company went to war with Nepal and this study examines the many legends that have grown up around them. It puts the story of the expansion and contraction of Britain's Gurkha force into the context of Nepalese history, as well as that of the Indian and British Armies.

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Tony Gould served in the 7th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya, India and Hong Kong. Invalided out of the army with polio, he read English at Cambridge, and then went on to work as a radio producer for the BBC and as literary editor of the New Statesman & Society. His books include Death in Chile: A Memoir and a Journey, Inside Outsider: the Life and Times of Colin MacInnes and, most recently, A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors.
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ISBN 13 9781862072848
ISBN 10 1862072841
Title Imperial Warriors
Author Tony Gould
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Granta Books
Year published 1999-09-30
Number of pages 512
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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