Talk:1st Gorkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)

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The presentation, as opposed to the content, of this article, is problematic. "Gorkha Rifles" indicates a regiment of India (Bharat), from 1947 to the present. Pre-1947,the spelling was "Gurkha" (although orginally, a third spelling, viz. "Goorkha" could also seen). It is anachronistic and therefore incorrect to have any regiment entitled "Gorkha" appearing in a list of units of the imperial Indian Army. A disambiguation page would solve this. The style "1st Gurkha Rifles" would then appear under the British list, but would connect to 1 Gorkha Rifles, to indicate the continuity of the tradition. Within the article itself, the sections relating to the pre-1947 unit should be spelled "Gurkha", and sections relating post-Independence should be spelled "Gorkha". Equally, the Victorian spelling (Goorkha)should be used where this was correct. The (reason for the)spelling of the ethnic group that lives in Nepal is (theoretically, though not in practice)independent of the style for the military units, whether the current British Gurkhas, the current Indian Gorkhas, or the Gurkhas (formerly Goorkhas) of the Indian Army of the undivided 'British India'.Protozoon (talk) 20:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC) On checking various links, it appears this has already been done for the military element of the article on the word 'Gurkha' but, surprisingly, not for the page which is expressly entitled 'British Indian Army'.Protozoon (talk) 21:51, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

The article needs inline references. — Lost^(talk) 12:24, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Is the regiment then no longer subtitled 'The Maluan Regiment'? Is there any evidence of this if it is the case? Also, should the title of the page not be '1st Gorkha Rifles' rather than '1 Gorkha Rifles'? If there have been similar changes to the other Indian Gurkha pages, should this not be addressed also? Hammersfan 10/12/06, 21.30 GMT

• The regiments official name is 1 Gorkha Rifles. The source of this is both personal information and bharat-rakshak.com. The Maulun regiment was the nickname associated with the regiment prior to independence. I don't believe it is called that anymore. Only the 5GR retains their Frontier Forces nickname, although this is not official. The appropriate changes have been made to the remaining Gorkha regiments on wikipedia. Rakeshsharma 15:05, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Possible improvements

I believe that this article could be improved up to a B class standard by addressing the following:

• Referencing: for a successful B class review, the article requires at least one in line citation per paragraph (more if multiple sources are used, or multiple contestable assertions are made);
• Coverage: currently the Interwar and Post Independence sections are lacking in information, these need to be expanded (particularly the Post Independence section);
• Supporting materials: the article passes the B class criteria by virtue of the infobox, but adding some images would help improve it even more.

I have done some work on the article, but don't have many sources so I have only been able to add some general citations. Some of the more involved information in the First and Second World War sections is almost completely without citations. If anyone has access to a Regimental history that can be cited, that would be a good improvement. Anyway, I hope this helps. — AustralianRupert (talk) 06:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

A NEW BEGINNING- The Times 0f India Chandigarh Saturday, April 2 ,2016

Army`s First Gurkha regiment raised a new battalion on Friday at Subathu cantonment in HP. The regiment has raised a new battalion after a gap of almost five decades. Now First Gurkha Regiment has five battalions and new battalion would be known as 6/1GR