The Gurkhas or Gorkhas are the officers of Nepalese nationality enrolled in British Army, Indian Army, Gurkha Contingent Singapore, Gurkha Reserve Unit Brunei, UN Peace Keeping power and combat areas AROUND THE WORLD. Verifiably, the expressions "Gurkha" and "Gorkhali" were synonymous with "Pahari",and gotten from the slope town and area of Gorkha from which the Kingdom of Nepal extended under Prithivi Narayan Shah which along these lines additionally prompt to development of Gorkhaland and Indian Gorkha ethnic gathering in India. The name might be followed to the medieval Hindu warrior-holy person Guru Gorakhnath who has a notable place of worship in Gorkha.The word itself got from Go-Raksha, raksha getting to be rakha. Rakhawala implies defender and is gotten from raksha too.
Ethnically, Chhetri or Khas , Thakuri, Gurung and Magar predominantly were the Gorkha tribes who joined past Gorkha kingdom and battled against the British attacks. Be that as it may, today, Gorkha warriors generally have a place with the Gurung, Magar, Rai, Limbu and Sunuwar, and a modest bunch of Chhetri; there is no ethnicity based limitation to join. There are Gurkha military units in the Nepalese, British and the Indian armed force enrolled in Nepal, United Kingdom and India. In spite of the fact that they meet large portions of the necessities of Article of Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions with respect to soldiers of fortune, they are absolved under statements like the French Foreign Legion.
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