<h1 class="ql-align-center">Gurkhas</h1> <h2>About:</h2> <ul><li>The Gurkhas or Gorkhas with the endonym Gorkhali, are soldiers of Nepalese nationality and Gorkha Indian ethnicity originating from South Asia</li></ul> <ul><li>The terms Gorkhali and Gurkha come from the mountainous principality of the Gorkha Kingdom, from where the Kingdom of Nepal expanded under Prithivi Narayan Shah.</li></ul> <ul><li>Gurkhas are soldiers native to South Asia, recruited for the British Army, Nepalese Army, the Indian Army, the Gurkha Brunei Reserve Unit, the Singapore Gurkha Contingent, UN peacekeeping forces, etc</li></ul> <ul><li>There are currently 25 lakh Gurkhas in Assam and are permanently settled in the Scheduled Areas in the last part of the 18th century as grazers and cultivators</li></ul> <ul><li>They fought for Assam against the Burmese invaders in 1826 resulting in the Treaty of Yandaboo </li></ul> <ul><li class="ql-indent-1">Treaty of Yandaboo was a peace treaty that resulted at the end of the First Anglo Burmese War. This treaty was signed on February 24, 1826, after two years of the war between the British and Burmese</li></ul> <ul><li>They were declared as a protected class by the British in the tribal belts and blocks according to the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation Act, 1886</li></ul>