१८५७ को भारतीय विद्रोहमा गोरखा सैनिकले बेलायती पक्ष किन लिए
देश। गोरखाहरूलाई मात्र यो थाहा भएको होइन, बङ्गालका
सिपाहीहरूलाई पनि यो थाहा छ, र तिनीहरू यो देखाउन हिचकिचाउँदैनन्
पनि। यो धेरै हदसम्म एउटा प्रतीक हो, एक सहजीवी, यदि त्यो
सही शब्द हो भने, यहाँ भिन्नताको सम्बन्ध छ। त्यसैले तपाईंसँग पहिले नै
त्यो छ, अनि त्यसमा तपाईं यो तथ्य थप्नुहुन्छ कि नेपालका पहाडीहरू
र बङ्गालका मैदानका मानिसहरूबीच धेरै कम समानता छ,
बङ्गाल र विशाल हिन्दू हिन्दुस्तानका। वास्तवमा, यदि
भन्ने हो भने, तिनीहरू मैदानका शत्रु हुन्। तिनीहरू त्यहाँका मानिसहरू जस्ता देखिँदैनन्।
तिनीहरू तिनीहरू जस्तै सोच्दैनन्। तिनीहरूको
काम गर्ने तरिकाहरू फरक छन्। तिनीहरू एकअर्कालाई तुच्छ ठान्छन् जसरी
प्रत्येकले अर्कोलाई कम ठान्छ। त्यसैले यहाँ हिमालयदेखि तल
र तलबाट माथिसम्म ठूलो मात्रामा जातिवाद छ। गोरखाहरूले चाँडै, यस कारणले
यस्तो प्रकारको विशिष्टतावादमा जुन स्वाभाविक रूपमै
तिनीहरूको संगठनमा निहित थियो, जसले एक धेरै बलियो रेजिमेन्टल
पहिचानलाई परम्पराहरू मार्फत, १८१५ देखि
१८५७ सम्मको, मेरो विचारमा, सेवा अवधिभर बढावा दियो। अनि तिनीहरूले, मेरो मतलब, तिनीहरूले
बंगाल सेनालाई यसरी उल्लेख गर्थे, तिनीहरूले बंगाल सेनालाई
'काला लोग' भन्थे, जसको अर्थ काला मानिसहरू हुन्थ्यो, वा 'पूर्बिया' (poor buyers),
जसको अर्थ पूर्वका मानिसहरू हुन्थ्यो, मेरो विचारमा। र यी
हामी तिनीहरू जस्ता छैनौँ भनी देखाउनका लागि विशिष्ट र अलग गर्ने शब्दहरू थिए।
वास्तवमा, १८४० को दशकको सिख युद्धको समयसम्म
यो अवस्था आयो कि गोर्खाहरूका (geckos) युरोपेली अधिकारीहरू, जो
अझै पनि स्थानीय बटालियनहरू थिए, उनीहरूले यस कुरामा गर्व गर्थे कि उनीहरूको
रेजिमेन्टल नामकरणको पछाडि 'आई' (I) थिएन, र यदि उनीहरूलाई
कहिले 'नेटिभ इन्फन्ट्री' भनियो भने अपमानित महसुस गर्थे, यो एउटा
यो रेजिमेन्टको गर्वको विषय हो कि हामी गेकोस हौं, हामी स्थानीय
पैदल सेना होइनौं। तिनीहरूले समय-समयमा ब्रिटिशहरूको नजिक शिविर
खडा गर्न अनुरोध गर्छन्। र जब जब जब त्यो कार्तूसको संकट
उत्पन्न भयो, उदाहरणका लागि, मेरो विचारमा, तिनीहरूले विशेष प्रयास गरे,
कम्तिमा एउटा अवसरमा, रेजिमेन्टको परम्पराले यसो भन्छ कि
तिनीहरूले, तिनीहरूले फिर्ता गरे, कार्तूसको कारणले, सम्झनुहोस्, त्यो
कार्तूसको स्थिति समाधान भयो, र तिनीहरूले नयाँ
कार्तूसहरू जारी गरे, तर गेकोसहरूले पुन: जारी गरिएका नयाँ
कार्तूसहरू फिर्ता दिए, र दूषित भनिएकाहरू नै फिर्ता मागे ताकि यो देखाउन सकियोस् कि
तिनीहरूलाई पहिलो स्थानमा कुनै समस्या थिएन, जुनसुकै
कार्तूस प्रयोग गर्न दिइए पनि, तिनीहरूले सोचे कि यसरी
बखेडा झिक्नु सैनिक आचरण विपरीत हो, यो कार्तूस हो, तपाईं यसलाई
पड्काउनुहुन्छ, यो, तपाईंलाई थाहा छ, जे हो त्यही हो। र त्यसैले जब
विद्रोह सुरु भयो, तिनीहरूको
बंगालका सिपाहीहरूसँग केही समानता थिएन, बाँकी सेना जस्तो नभई जो
आफ्नो जनसमुदाय र एक प्रकारले आफ्नै
रेजिमेन्टल प्रणालीहरू मार्फत कुरा चाँडै फैलाउन र
यस्ता खालका विद्रोहका साना सरकारहरू बनाउन सक्षम थिए, जस्तै
मंगल पाण्डेले गरेका थिए र त्यस्तै कुराहरू। राम्रो कुरा तिनीहरूको
गोरखाहरूसँग कुनै सम्बन्ध थिएन, र तिनीहरूले त
भाषा पनि बोल्दैनथे। वास्तवमा, तिनीहरूले अर्कै
बाटो रोज्नुपर्ने हुन्थ्यो। र गोरखाहरूलाई आफ्नो पक्षमा पार्न
कुनै ढोका खुला थिएन। त्यसैले गोरखाहरू ब्रिटिशहरूकै साथमा रहे
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country. Not only do the geckos know this, but the the Bengal seaport seaports know this, and they are not shy about showing it either. It's a very much a symbol, a symbiotic, if that's the right word, relationship of difference here. So you already have that, then you add to that the fact that the Highlanders
of Nepal have very little in common with the the planesmen of the Bengal, of Bengal and Hindu wider Hindustan. In fact, if anything, they're the enemies of the plane. They, they don't look like the people down there. They don't think like them. They have different ways of doing things. They despise them as the each
despises the other is lesser. So there's a hefty bit of racism here from the Himalayas down and back up. The geckos quickly, due to this sort of exceptionalism that was just inherent in the in how they were organized, fostered a very strong regimental identity through traditions through 40 years from 1815 to
1857 ish, I believe, of service. And they, they, I mean, they didn't, they referred to the they refer to the Bengal army as the color log, which means black people, or the poor buyers, which means people from the east, I believe. And these were distinctive separate separating terms to show that we're not
like them. In fact, it got to the point by the Sikh wars in the 1840s, that the European officers of the geckos, who are still local battalions took pride in the fact they did not have an eye after the regimental designation, and would be insulted if they were ever called native infantry, it was a
matter of regimental pride that we're geckos, we're not native infantry. They request now and again to be encamped nearer the British. And when the when the when the cartridge crisis occurred, for instance, they went out of their way, I think, on one occasion, at least so regimental tradition states that
they, they return, because of the cartridge, remember, the cartridge situation was resolved, and they issued new cartridges, but the geckos gave back the reissued new cartridges, and asked for the tainted ones back to show that they didn't have a problem in the first place, with any
cartridge they were given to use, they thought it was unsoldierly to be messing around with this, it's a cartridge, you fire it, it's, you know, it is what it is. And so when the mutiny came out, they had nothing in common with the Bengal sepoys, they had no, unlike the rest of the army that
was able to through its masses and sort of through its own regimental systems, spread the word quite quickly and have these sorts of mutiny sort of little governments like the ones that Mangal Pandey used and things like that. The good they had no in with the geckos, but they didn't even speak the
language. Really, they would have to go through a different route. And there was no and there was no door open to get the geckos on their side. So the geckos stage with the British
