‘Bravest of the Brave’: Representations of ‘The Gurkha’ in British Military Writings
1991; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0026749x00013937
ISSN1469-8099
Autores Tópico(s)Military History and Strategy
ResumoThe legendary Gurkhas have inspired a considerable literature about their character, quality and exploits under British command. Some years ago, after I returned from fieldwork in an area of east Nepal inhabited by the Limbu people, many of whom had served in Gurkha regiments, I began to read some of this literature for background purposes. It struck me then, although not nearly so forcibly as it did later when I had read Edward Said (1978), and returned to the Gurkha material after a long absence, that these writings have a very distinctive character, constituting a particular mode of ‘orientalist’ discourse.
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