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FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING BRITAIN'S GURKHA WAR

2009; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 40; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03068370903195154

1477-1500

John Pemble,

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

Abstract The Anglo-Nepali War of 1814 to 1816 was one of Britain's least distinguished military performances. It was just about a victory, but it produced no heroic feats and thus it was duly forgotten by the Victorians as it failed to fit into the cult of imperialism and the British Raj. But subsequently, as the exploits of Empire became unfashionable, the wars dear to the Victorians were forgotten. But the memory of the Anglo-Nepali War was resurrected as it formed an integral part of the enduring legend of the Gurkhas. Notes Lord Macaulay, ‘Lord Clive’, in Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889, p. 502. J. W. Kaye, Lives of Indian Officers. London: Strahan, Bell and Daldy, 1867, p.i, p.xi. Lionel Caplan, Warrior Gentlemen: ‘Gurkhas’ in the Western Imagination. Oxford: Berghan Books, 1995, p. 156. Lionel Caplan, Warrior Gentlemen; Mary K. DesChene, Relics of Empire: A Cultural History of the Gurkhas (unpublished Ph.D thesis). Stanford University, 1991; John T. Hitchcock, The Magars of Banyan Hill. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1966; Alan Macfarlane, Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976; S. R. Munford, Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal. Madison Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. J. P. Cross, ‘Foreword’, in John Pemble, Britain's Gurkha War: The Invasion of Nepal 1814–16. London: Frontline Books, 2008. A. P. Coleman, A Special Corps: The Beginnings of Gorkha Service with the British. Edinburgh: The Pentland Press, 1999, p. 163. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn Pemble John Pemble is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. His publications deal with the British in India, 19th century travel, the modern apotheosis of Venice, and the French experience of Shakespeare. His first book (The Invasion of Nepal: John Company at War) has recently been republished as Britain's Gurkha War: The Invasion of Nepal 1814–16.