Gurkha

The name taken by soldiers from central Nepal who fought for the British as part of the Indian army and later the British army. The Gurkhas (sometimes spelled Ghurkas or Ghorkas) were famed for their tenacity and fearlessness in many British wars. A number of them served in Burma before and after the Second World War; some of those settled in Myitkyina and other places in Kachin State, as well as elsewhere in Burma.