Word: gurkha
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...Urquhart was still their prisoner. They hauled him to a military camp outside town, beat him on and off for two more hours. Every time a car approached the camp, the soldiers, fearing the arrival of the U.N.'s tough Gurkha soldiers of the local Indian contingent, put submachine-gun muzzles to Urquhart's head and vowed to shoot if the U.N. tried to intervene. Not until angry U.N. aides induced Tshombe and two of his Cabinet ministers to drive to the camp was Urquhart released. "I was sure I was going to die there...
...clause he himself had providently written into the constitution, summarily dissolved Parliament. Prime Minister Koirala, in the act of addressing a youth rally, was hauled off and locked up in the army officers' club. So were all the other Cabinet members whom the army could find. As loyal Gurkha troops patrolled the narrow streets of Mahendra's capital Katmandu, Mahendra explained that he was assuming full regal powers because the elected government was "failing to maintain law and order, harboring undesirable activity and killing the people's democratic aspirations...
...fact is that Nepal, home of the famed Gurkha soldiers, has so far proved singularly impervious to outsiders. When India built Nepal a 78-mile road, some Nepalese concluded that Nehru was planning to take over the country-an attitude that India found as disconcerting as the U.S. often finds India's. Of the $12 million that Red China is pouring in, most has vanished down the well of government deficit, and Nepal has flatly refused to allow Chinese technicians inside its borders. As for recent U.S. aid-development projects in more than 1,200 villages, the ridding...
...British Empire, but never, apparently, on novels about it. Currently the most prolific of old-colonial-writing hands is John Masters (Bhowani Junction, Coromandel!), an ex-infantry officer (4th Gurkha Rifles) who now offers the sixth installment of his projected 35-volume epic of the British in India. The book is a reliable old elephant, advancing indomitably over the narrative terrain while throwing the dust of unlikely adventures in the reader's eye. The gist of Far, Far the Mountain Peak is that, given enough rope in India, a cad may climb it-socially...
Born in Calcutta of a family that had served in India since 1805, he was as excited about India as though he had gone there from a Midwestern farm. He was afire with the need to make good with his Gurkha troops, tribesmen from Nepal whose qualities as men and soldiers still excite his respect and imagination: "There were no excuses, no grumbling, no shirking, no lying. There was no intrigue, no apple-polishing, and no servility." Not until two years had passed did they put the seal of approval on the young subaltern. It was a loyalty worth having...