Buy this book on-line KHANDURI,CHANDRA B: : A RE-DISCOVERED HISTORY OF GORKHASINDIA,DELHI.GAYAN SAGAR PUBLICATIONS,1997. ISBN 8186987061.
India,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,unclipped dw/dj - no publisher price present.Bright, clean, glossy laminated dw/dj - slightly oversize
- with minimal shelf-wear and light creasing to top edge because of size, no nicks or tears present.Majority of edge creases to top edges with inevitable light
bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges generally clean and bright, contents bright, tight and near pristine.
Publisher's original black cloth bds, slightly marked, with white ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip and b/w map eps.8vo,ii-xxi+ 3-306pp includes title-page, contents list, introductory essay, Books 1-3 covering 22 chapters - epilogue included, profuse b/w maps+battle plans+
diagrams/illustrations, 4pp b/w plates, biblio and an index.
How did the Gorkhas acquire the cogonmen of Bahadur, the 'Bravest of the Braves'? How did they repeatedly defeat a twenty time larger superior force of the British equipped with battering guns and cavalry in those unknown landmarks of Malaun, Kalunga, Jaithak, Jitgarh, or Makwanpur? How were they invited by a Quisling to capture and rule Kumaon? Or, how a small band of Gorkhas moved into Tibet and Sikkim to plunder and then invite the Chinese wrath that had their back to Makwanpur and Kathmandu? How the Garhwalis
who held them back at Langurgarhi and Benital got decimated at Khurbura, in the Dun? What frontline leadership and strategic vision propelled the peasant army of Gorkhas to fight like Genghis Khan's tartars? And how did the legend of the Gorkha Johnny inspire awe and admiration of the British and Maharajah Ranjit Singh both employing them in their armies?
Fascinating aspects of history indeed. Fascination is further romanticised by revealing historical mammoths that show the other side of the coin:the Johnny himself.Here he was punishing a Quisling respecting the fallen Garhwali King Pradyuman;assisting the fallen comrades to be removed from the no-man's land.On the battlefield a 74 year-old Bhakti Thapa
attacks the British guns and gets killed;
a Johnny walks into a British camp with his fractured jaw and salutes and thanks for the treatment he received before returning to his fort to fight yet another
day;or a group of Gorkhas who captured Lieut. Young tell him that they would be happy in being officered by him.
A great trust in the right type of officer.The Gorkha soldier has been and continues to be the world's highest decorated for courage and gallantry and is admired for loyalty, camaraderie and lack of malice.The amazing feat of the valour of Bal Bhadra and his 600 Garhwalis
and Gorkhalis with one-third women and children standing up to repeated attacks by a 2,000 strong assaulting echelons of Rollo Gillespie for two months continues to awe historians.Rollo himself at the head of his Division was killed and three Generals like him assigned to attack the Gorkhas from west to east were so frightened that they returned after touching the fringes of the Himalayas.To sum it up, one of them, deserting his command - another rare feat!
Marching Off With Colours. . . .
decidedly a fascinating history, is packed with characters of the adventurers, exploiters, negotiators and manipulators.
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