ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses multiple challenges such as legal, societal, economic and other challenges that the Gurkha families face, in their new homes in the United Kingdom (UK), which disable them to perform their rituals properly. It focuses on the experiences of Oxford Gurkhas in their new homes. The chapter introduces the history of Gurkha service and their recent struggle for the settlement right. This is a unique type of migration, partly because the ex-Gurkhas, many of them economically quite well-off in Nepal with savings and pensions from Gurkha service and other overseas jobs, are neither purely economic migrants nor refugees. They have always claimed that it is their right to live and work in the UK with their families after retiring from the service for the sacrifice of thousands of Gurkhas fighting for the British Empire, for minimal or no compensation. Ancestor worship is an important ritual of almost everybody in Nepal.
