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  1. Member of a people living in the mountains of
  2. Nepal, whose young men have been recruited
  3. since 1815 for the British army. They are
  4. predominantly Tibeto-Mongolians, but their
  5. language is Khas, a dialect of a N Indic
  6. language.
  7.