A Special Corps : The Beginnings of Gorkha Service with the British

xxxvi, 318pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Previous owner's sticker on front paste down. Dust jacket has some minor shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. Traces the early recruitment of Gorkhas into the East India Company's Bengal Army and is based on sound research and documentary evidence, a significant part of which has so far been unpublished.