Imperial Gorkha
Author: Mahesh Chandra Regmi
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
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Imperial Warriors
Author: Tony Gould
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781862073654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
The Gurkhas
Author: John Parker
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2013-02-28
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1472202600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheir 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.
The Sublime Post
Author: Choon Hwee Koh
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2024-09-17
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0300270534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-distance communication was the horse-run relay system. Every empire had one--including the Ottoman Empire. In The Sublime Post, Choon Hwee Koh examines how the vast Ottoman postal system worked across three centuries by tracking the roles of eight small-scale actors--the Courier, the Tatar, Imperial Decrees, the Bookkeeper, the Postmaster, the Villager, Money, and the Horse. There are stories of price-gouging postmasters; of murdered couriers and their bereaved widows; of moonlighting officials transporting merchandise; of neighboring villages engaged in long-running feuds; of bookkeepers calculating the annual costs of horseshoes, halters, and hay; of Tatar couriers and British travelers sharing drunken nights at post stations; of swimming with horses across rivers; and of hiding from marauding bandits in the desert. By weaving together chronicles, sharia court records, fiscal registers, collective petitions, appointment contracts, and imperial decrees from the Ottoman archive, this study of a large-scale communications infrastructure reveals the interdependence of an empire and its diverse imperial subjects. Koh traces this evolving interdependence between 1500 and 1840 to tell the history of the Ottoman Empire and its changing social order.
The Frontier Complex
Author: Kyle J. Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-01-21
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1108840590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.
SpaceTime of the Imperial
Author: Holt Meyer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-11-07
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 3110418851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume works through spatio-temporal concepts to be found in imperial practices and their representations in a wide range of media. The individual cases investigated in the volume cover a broad spectrum of historical periods from ancient times up to the present. Well-known international scholars treat special cases of the topic, using cutting-edge theory and approaches stemming from historical, cartographic, religious, literary, media studies, as well as ethnography.
The Gurkhas
Author: Chris Bellamy
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2011-04-14
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1848545150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Author: David P Forsythe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-08-27
Total Pages: 2641
ISBN-13: 0195334027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis four-volume encyclopedia set offers coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history.
Nepal - India Open Borders
Author: Lok Raj Baral
Publisher: Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Published: 2015-12-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9384464929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present book is based on field study of Nepal-India open border arrangement and conduct of such unique and free border existing between the two countries since the signing of Sugauli Treaty in 1815-16. Its openness poses both challenges and opportunities for disturbing as well as making bilateral relations smooth and friendly. How such close relations which are incomparable to others have been managed and how the newer problems that arise with the pace of time and situation are being addressed are also the theme of study. The findings of study are no less significant as Nepal and India have developed mechanisms to deal with the day-to-day problems making significant improvements for streamlining the border. Yet, two types of problems have given rise to occasional controversy: infringement of border and humanitarian problems caused by the erosion of borderland and occupation of no-man's land by both Indian and Nepalis. The use and misuse of open border by elements indulged in illegal trade, criminal activities of all nature, have also made border management more complex. The concluding section of the book deals with the corrective measures for making open border more smooth, efficient and credible.
Opening the Hidden Land
Author: Saul Mullard
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-10-28
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 900420895X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing seventeenth and eighteenth century sources from the former Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, this book examines the construction of Sikkimese historiography and presents an interpretation of the history of state formation of Sikkim.
