herealone and yakthung bros,

when someone says, that village belongs to this caste, that caste, this simply means the dominant caste inhabits that village. same with Gorkha, majority of the population is magar. there are other castes too. remember, baburam is from gorkha.

magars and thakuris are two distinct elites of nepal warriors. as yakthung said, Hudaon did extensive research and was impressed and set a trend to recruit magar, gurung, rai, limbus. u hardly find tamangs, sherpas, thakuris in the british or indian army. newars, bahuns, chettris occpy different proffesions. it is again about majority - magars and gurungs are the choicest races for gurkha army.

and due to them, the rest of Nepal enjoys the fame being the 'LAND OF THE GURKHA' so we are obliged to salute them.

btw, I am a full blooded gurkha with many relatives in british army and I do not agree with some of their views. That is tottaly different matter. Several are in Iraq and Afganistan.

By occupation, I should be in UK but here I am, studying hard to be someone in academic arena. And I am happy with my decision.