Contents 1 Background 2 British East India Company Army 3 British Indian Army (c. 1857–1947) 3.1 Gurkha military rank system in the British Indian Army 3.1.1 British Indian Army and current Indian Army ranks/current British Army equivalents[34] 4 Regiments of the Gurkha Rifles (c.1815–1947) 4.1 Second World War training battalions 5 Post-independence (1947–present) 5.1 British Army Gurkhas 5.2 Indian Army Gorkhas 5.3 Nepalese Army Gorkhas 5.4 Singapore Gurkha Contingent 5.5 Brunei Gurkha Reserve Unit 6 Other 6.1 Ethnic identity 6.2 Victoria Cross recipients 6.3 Treatment of Gurkhas in the United Kingdom 6.4 Hong Kong 6.5 Malaysia 6.6 United States Navy 6.7 Settlement Rights 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links
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