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To: minus_273
Gorkhas are Nepalese not indians

Correct. I was thinking it was part of India under British rule, but it was not. It was a separate client state under British influence, but separately governed and at least nominally independent.

Indian troops did, however, fight in Burma and North Africa and Italy.

34 posted on 07/24/2005 12:56:48 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

yeah indians fought on both sides in North africa, Europe and South East Asia. Indian troops earned a really bad reputation in France for adopting a scortched earth policy and rapes when they retreated from the allied advance.


35 posted on 07/24/2005 4:23:11 PM PDT by minus_273
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