Posted by: NALAPANI June 18, 2012
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@Daaku
I do not know what your ethnicity is but question your raised made me surprised. You sounded like you have severe lack of knowledge of nepalese history. If you know the history of Unification and recruitment of nepalese gurkha in the British/ Indian army you would not ask such stupid questioins.
Anyway, I am going to write about this for you. In BS 1616 Drabya Shah ascended to the throne of the Gorkha and started making his army. His first army head was Bhagirath panta. Pandeys and Basnets followed the league. I cannot deny presenece and contribution of magars also. When Narabhupal Shah attacked Nuwakot his army cheif was Birraj Bakheti, a magar. gorkha lost the war beacuse of flaws in Bakheti's maneuever so he dismissed him and made Maheshwor Panta head of army.
Let's talk about unification and P N Shah. The credit of first modernization and re-organization of Gorkhali army goes to PN Shah. He made 5 regiments namely Bardabahadur (Bajra bahini), Shrinath, Gorakhnath (purano), Sabuj, and Sherdal during his reign. Only one of them viz. Gorakhnath was magar regiment gurung did not have their own regiment then (they have one now, kalibahadur gan is gurung gan which served as one of the batallion in the nepal's first UN peace keeping campaign). The major constituent of gorkhali army was khas (nowhere in nepalese history you will see word Chhetri). If you have gone through the history of Nepalese army (and you can go if you contact army head quarter and request for the archives) you should know his first priority was khas then magar. His maternal uncle Udhot Sen, the palpali prince, advised him to recruit khas saying " Bahun ko sawari (military support )bhaneko bail (ox) ko sawari ho, patak lagchha, Thakuri ko sawari bhaneko simha (lion) ko sawari ho, ghat (deceit) garchha, magar bhaneko tangan ghoda (local horse) ho, bharpardo huncha tara alik dhilo hunchaa, khas ko bhar parnu khas bhaneko Tazi-turki ghoda ho".
Lets put this aside. Pratap S Shah, son and heir of P N shah the great, wanted to annex eastern nepal and he sent gorkhali army in the command of puran Singh Ale Magar. He attacked 14 times but failed. He came back to center with a treaty. When Rana Br shah came to power, he agian sent gorkhali army to annex Limbuwan and western sikkim in the command of Abhiman Singh Basnyat, Parath Bhandari, Shiva narayan singh khatri and Puran singh ale magar. This time Gorkhali army won the Limbuwan territory from Sikkim. Only after that Limbu and Rais got chance in gorkhali army. During the unification of western principalities Swaroop Singh Karki was crucial in the annexation of states like Tanahu. Thapa came to power only after basnet and Pandey. The thapas have the khas root but magar people also claim all the thapa generals to be magar. So, let's put controversy (Thapa) aside (there are scads of proofs to prove them as khas though). Can you overlook the contribution of Kalu pandeya, Damodar Pandey, DalaBhanjan Pandey, Ram Krishna Kunwar, Shivaram Singh Khatri, Swaroop Singh Karki, Kehar Singh Basnyat, Nahar Singh Basnet, Abhiman Singh Basnyat, Dhaukal Singh Basnyat, Kirti narshing Basnyat, Nandu shah, Balabhadra Kunwar, Pararth Bhandari, Bom Shah etc ? Who are they? Yes, I cannot deny the contribution of Magars and gurungs also. The 4 casts P N Shah mentioned in his divya upadesh are Khas, magar, thakuri, and Gurung.
During anglo-gorkha war, at nalapani magar regiment purano gorakh gan was stationed in the command of Balabhadra kunwar chhetri. The only war nepal won against briton was war of Jitpurgadhi led by Ujir Singh Thapa, the commander of Sabuj gan. The sabuj gan mainly constitued khas. Sabuj gan was established in nuwakot after defeating her in the battle.
Valedictory of this part: You can project the presence of khas in gorkhali army then by looking presence of chhetris/ thakuris now. Almost 58% of army officers are of that two clans. I hope you will not awe if I say before 1990 BS nepalese army consisted khas more than 90%. Magar and gurungs alos have great contribution in the unification battles but the greatest contribution was from khas (I AM HERE USING SAME LINE AS PROF. DR. JAGAMAN GURUNG OF CENTRAL DEPT OF HISTORY TU). PERIOD
WILL WRITE MORE ABOUT FEARED GORKHA, if khas (chhetri) are martial race or not (you made me laugh) AND RECRUITMENT IN BRITISH GORKHA REGIMENT SOON.
I do not know what your ethnicity is but question your raised made me surprised. You sounded like you have severe lack of knowledge of nepalese history. If you know the history of Unification and recruitment of nepalese gurkha in the British/ Indian army you would not ask such stupid questioins.
Anyway, I am going to write about this for you. In BS 1616 Drabya Shah ascended to the throne of the Gorkha and started making his army. His first army head was Bhagirath panta. Pandeys and Basnets followed the league. I cannot deny presenece and contribution of magars also. When Narabhupal Shah attacked Nuwakot his army cheif was Birraj Bakheti, a magar. gorkha lost the war beacuse of flaws in Bakheti's maneuever so he dismissed him and made Maheshwor Panta head of army.
Let's talk about unification and P N Shah. The credit of first modernization and re-organization of Gorkhali army goes to PN Shah. He made 5 regiments namely Bardabahadur (Bajra bahini), Shrinath, Gorakhnath (purano), Sabuj, and Sherdal during his reign. Only one of them viz. Gorakhnath was magar regiment gurung did not have their own regiment then (they have one now, kalibahadur gan is gurung gan which served as one of the batallion in the nepal's first UN peace keeping campaign). The major constituent of gorkhali army was khas (nowhere in nepalese history you will see word Chhetri). If you have gone through the history of Nepalese army (and you can go if you contact army head quarter and request for the archives) you should know his first priority was khas then magar. His maternal uncle Udhot Sen, the palpali prince, advised him to recruit khas saying " Bahun ko sawari (military support )bhaneko bail (ox) ko sawari ho, patak lagchha, Thakuri ko sawari bhaneko simha (lion) ko sawari ho, ghat (deceit) garchha, magar bhaneko tangan ghoda (local horse) ho, bharpardo huncha tara alik dhilo hunchaa, khas ko bhar parnu khas bhaneko Tazi-turki ghoda ho".
Lets put this aside. Pratap S Shah, son and heir of P N shah the great, wanted to annex eastern nepal and he sent gorkhali army in the command of puran Singh Ale Magar. He attacked 14 times but failed. He came back to center with a treaty. When Rana Br shah came to power, he agian sent gorkhali army to annex Limbuwan and western sikkim in the command of Abhiman Singh Basnyat, Parath Bhandari, Shiva narayan singh khatri and Puran singh ale magar. This time Gorkhali army won the Limbuwan territory from Sikkim. Only after that Limbu and Rais got chance in gorkhali army. During the unification of western principalities Swaroop Singh Karki was crucial in the annexation of states like Tanahu. Thapa came to power only after basnet and Pandey. The thapas have the khas root but magar people also claim all the thapa generals to be magar. So, let's put controversy (Thapa) aside (there are scads of proofs to prove them as khas though). Can you overlook the contribution of Kalu pandeya, Damodar Pandey, DalaBhanjan Pandey, Ram Krishna Kunwar, Shivaram Singh Khatri, Swaroop Singh Karki, Kehar Singh Basnyat, Nahar Singh Basnet, Abhiman Singh Basnyat, Dhaukal Singh Basnyat, Kirti narshing Basnyat, Nandu shah, Balabhadra Kunwar, Pararth Bhandari, Bom Shah etc ? Who are they? Yes, I cannot deny the contribution of Magars and gurungs also. The 4 casts P N Shah mentioned in his divya upadesh are Khas, magar, thakuri, and Gurung.
During anglo-gorkha war, at nalapani magar regiment purano gorakh gan was stationed in the command of Balabhadra kunwar chhetri. The only war nepal won against briton was war of Jitpurgadhi led by Ujir Singh Thapa, the commander of Sabuj gan. The sabuj gan mainly constitued khas. Sabuj gan was established in nuwakot after defeating her in the battle.
Valedictory of this part: You can project the presence of khas in gorkhali army then by looking presence of chhetris/ thakuris now. Almost 58% of army officers are of that two clans. I hope you will not awe if I say before 1990 BS nepalese army consisted khas more than 90%. Magar and gurungs alos have great contribution in the unification battles but the greatest contribution was from khas (I AM HERE USING SAME LINE AS PROF. DR. JAGAMAN GURUNG OF CENTRAL DEPT OF HISTORY TU). PERIOD
WILL WRITE MORE ABOUT FEARED GORKHA, if khas (chhetri) are martial race or not (you made me laugh) AND RECRUITMENT IN BRITISH GORKHA REGIMENT SOON.