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Identify the native place of the Gorkhas.

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Manipur
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Bengal
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Nepal
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Burma
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Solution

The correct option is C Nepal
After the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, the British recruited soldiers largely from the martial castes of Punjab and Nepal. The British Army recruited soldiers from Nepal for its Gorkha Regiment from the ethnic group known as the Gorkhas.

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