before nepal was unified and the national policy and system codiefied as per hinduism, beef was widely consumed especially by ethnic tribes. kiratis in darjeeling and sikkim still consume beef. pork is the most preferred flesh in dharan and eastern regions. beef is sold once a week this days in dharan. but religious doctrine of gurkhas hav maintained strong hinduism tradition, they have special quota for bahun priests too. all the hindu festivals are celebrated by all regiments. it is due to so called high caste influence being the rulers primarily by ranas. most of the commanders in traditional gorkhali army formed by PNS hailed from high caste in accordance to the hinduism heirarchy. but irony is chunk of individuals that formed gurkhas were from ethnic tribes who were traditionally not hindus. this is one of the reason almost most of the gurkhas n thier family started practising hinduism than to thier traditional religion having being spent most of thier youth in the influence of military hindu culture. acknowledging and realising this fact and mistakes recently british gurkhas started recruiting buddhist priests and most of the kirati tribes has strated to write kiratis as thier religion instead of hindu.