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Gorkha Village Washing Ritual

Local women fill water bottles and wash family clothing and their hair in cold Himalayan mountain waters during their morning ritual in Gorkha which lent its name to the Gurkha soldier, and from where young teenage boys are typically recruited for service into the British army, a tradition that goes back to the Indian Mutiny of 1857, on 12th December 1997, in Gorkha, Nepal.

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Local women fill water bottles and wash family clothing and their hair in cold Himalayan mountain waters during their morning ritual in Gorkha which lent its name to the Gurkha soldier, and from where young teenage boys are typically recruited for service into the British army, a tradition that goes back to the Indian Mutiny of 1857, on 12th December 1997, in Gorkha, Nepal.