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Volume 40, Issue 3, 2009

Special Issue:

FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING BRITAIN'S GURKHA WAR

FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING BRITAIN'S GURKHA WAR

DOI:
10.1080/03068370903195154
John Pemble*

pages 361-376

Available online: 10 Nov 2009

Abstract

The Anglo-Nepali War of 1814 to 1816 was one of Britain's least distinguished military performances. It was just about a victory, but it produced no heroic feats and thus it was duly forgotten by the Victorians as it failed to fit into the cult of imperialism and the British Raj. But subsequently, as the exploits of Empire became unfashionable, the wars dear to the Victorians were forgotten. But the memory of the Anglo-Nepali War was resurrected as it formed an integral part of the enduring legend of the Gurkhas.

 

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  • Available online: 10 Nov 2009

Author notes

  • John Pemble -

    John Pemble is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. His publications deal with the British in India, 19th century travel, the modern apotheosis of Venice, and the French experience of Shakespeare. His first book (The Invasion of Nepal: John Company at War) has recently been republished as Britain's Gurkha War: The Invasion of Nepal 1814–16.

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