Warrior gentleman: 'Gurkhas' in the Western imagination/ Lionel Caplan

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995Description: 181pISBN:
  • 1571818529 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: This essay constitutes an an attempt to relate the rhetorical devices employed to depict Gurkhas to the wider historical, political and military contexts affecting soldiers and in particular their European officer chronicles. It thus relies on a variety of literacy historical, political and ethnographic sources, published and unpublished.
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This essay constitutes an an attempt to relate the rhetorical devices employed to depict Gurkhas to the wider historical, political and military contexts affecting soldiers and in particular their European officer chronicles. It thus relies on a variety of literacy historical, political and ethnographic sources, published and unpublished.

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