Best known for their history of bravery and strength in the British Army, they were designated by British officials as a “Martial Race” (a designation created to describe peoples that were thought to be naturally warlike and possessing those qualities).
Former Chief of staff of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw once famously said about Gurkhas: “If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.”
In the history of the Gurkhas, only 02 are recorded to have turned against the British Empire, both under extreme torture by the Japanese during WWII. Even now, the Gurkhas are part of the British Commonwealth (countries that chose to stay loosely part of Britain).
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