Gurkhas: Handbook for the Indian Army

This book is an enlarged edition ofauthor’s Notes on Gurkhas, written in 1890, and of his Notes on Nepal, published in 1895. In compiling this book he has borrowed most freely from every authority he has knowledge of, who has written on Nepal or its inhabitants. As, probably, nearly one-half of this book consists of extracts from various authors strung together, often with alterations and additions of my own, I have been unable to put between inverted commas every borrowed paragraph; but, where feasible, I have generally done so, and have quoted the name of the author from whose book the extract has been taken. The further subdivisions of the above are taken from Lieutenant Colonel H Wylie’s List of Zillas and Tehsils, etc., dated 1895-1898, and from corrections thereto sent to me by Lieutenant-Colonel Ravenshaw.