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Sikh Soldiers in Europe during the First World War, 1914-1918 (2012)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2012). Sikh Soldiers in Europe during the First World War, 1914-1918. In K. A. Jacobsen, & K. Myrvold (Eds.), Sikhs Across Borders: Transnational Practices of European Sikhs (36 - 50). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948 (2012)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2012). A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948. In A. Jeffreys, & P. Rose (Eds.), The Indian Army, 1939–47: Experience and Development (195 - 214). Aldershot: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315556772

Broadly speaking this is indeed what happened, with one striking exception – the Gurkhas. No Gurkha regiments were ‘transferred’ to the Indian Army in 1947, for the simple reason that they already were part of the Indian Army. Instead, four of the In... Read More about A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948.