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Gurkha Rifles

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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri Kukri] Wikipedia
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071228105027/http://www.regiments.org/nations/southasia/nepal.htm Nepal including Gurkha Regiments] Regiments.org, an archived website.
*"Regimental Histories and Army Handbooks: A Bibliography of the Gurkha Regiments" by Mary Des Chene, Dept of Anthropology, Stanford University ''SALNAQ - Issue 21 / 22 (Fall 1986 / Spring 1987) '' (SALNAQ: South Asia Library Notes & Queries | CONSALD) [https://web.archive.org/web/20140506043740/http://consald.org/sites/default/files/SALNAQ/Issue_21-22/2122_198687_24_RegimentalHistories.pdf Archived link]. Also available PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, located in Books/ Indian Subcontinent/1987:Mary K. DesChene was the author of the 1991 Stanford University PhD thesis ''Relics of Empire: a Cultural History of the Gurkhas 1815-1987'' which has not been published but is/was available from University Microfilms.
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8452000/8452508.stm Gurkha kukri knife's historic role in war and peace] BBC.
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=Photo_24!(98)_f176r Photograph: [1/4th<nowiki>]</nowiki> Gurkhas at kit inspection showing kukris [Le Sart, France<nowiki>].</nowiki>] Photographer: H. D. Girdwood. Date: 24 Jul 1915. [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Photo_24/(98) Catalogue record] British Library Digitised Manuscripts.
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