The Gurkhas in Singapore : a study of the implications of Singapore’s construction of the ‘Martial’ Gurkha and restrictive control over information, 1949-1980

• Main Author: Cheer, Dawn
• Other Authors: Miles Alexander Powell
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Politics and government
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69765
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While the popularity of the topic of the Gurkhas in Singapore seem to be growing in recent years, the bulk of the literature on the Singapore Gurkha Contingent can largely be classified as sociological studies aimed at exploring the lives of the Gurkhas in Singapore as well as their sentiments towar...