I have seen Newar soldiers and officers serving in the British Gorkha Army and retired from the BGA. Granted their number is not that many compared to other known martial race Gorkhas. You may not see a Shrestha or a Bajracharya, but there are Pradhans. And, as far as I am concerned they are equally a good Newar. British were very good in divide and rule policy. They also adopted a policy NOT to take the the Buddishts. Their real excuse was that since they belong to the Buddhist faith, they will not kill when the time comes to. That is simply not true as the two VC recipients, Ganju Lama and Gaje Ghaley, were of the Buddhist faith. The real reasons behind it are as follows: -Chandra Shamsher, who did everything to please his British masters to keep the Nepalis under his feet, was most apprehensive of the Tamangs, of the Buddhist faith, because a group of them rovolted against the Rana rules and their exploitation. To put them down for ever, with the advice of his raj guru pandit, Chandra Shamser told British not to take them in the British Army. At the same time, Chandra Shamser made sure that the Tamangs will NOT rise to the rank of the officers in the Royal Nepal Army lest they raise their voice against the injustice, discrimination and exploitation, and revolt again. Britishers just found an excuse to oblige the Maharaj in their game of scratching each other's back at the cost of common Nepalis. -There were several off springs born out of the Tamangseni nanis working at the palaces and the Ranas wanted to hide it forever. Someday, historians with guts will write openly and unhesitatingly that Rabindra Shah was the eldest son of King Mahendra who was born out of wedlock with a Gurungseni. If you were blind, then it will be hard to notice the mongoloid feature of Aishwarya, notorious Shahard Shah,and many others. Unfortunalely, we have not seen any historians who have gone to get the truth. They have simply sang the same tun and chorus that favours the rulers. So much so, even the foreigners relied heavily on the secondary sources of information supplied by those bias informers aka historians who have distorted the facts. Need I say more?