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Lieutenant General George Fletcher MacMunn, The Martial Races of India (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, 1933) Lieutenant General George Fletcher MacMunn (1869-1952) who started his military career in 1888 and retired in 1925, authored many books and…
Read More: On Nepal's Martial Races »Lt. Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, Among the Himalayas (London: Archibald Constable & Company, 1899) It was Lt. Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell (1854–1938), a British military surgeon, who ventured to publish this book after traveling around a decade and…
Read More: Among the Himalayas »Percy Brown, Picturesque Nepal [London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912] There are many authors who have worked on Nepal's aesthetic and cultural heritages. The book of Percy Brown, Picturesque Nepal (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912) certainly deserves a…
Read More: Picturesque Nepal »Henry Ballantine,On India's Frontier or, Nepal: The Gurkhas' Mysterious Land [New York: J. Selwin Tait and Sons, 1895] The book On India's Frontier or, Nepal: The Gurkhas' Mysterious Land (New York: J. Selwin Tait and Sons, 1895) is yet another earlier piece…
Read More: On India's Frontier or, Nepal: The Gurkhas' Mysterious Land. »Edward C. Sachau, Alberuni’s India (Two Volumes) [London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1910] Edward C. Sachau’s two volume book Alberuni’s India [London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1910], which was first published in 1888, is an outstanding work…
Read More: Alberuni's References on Nepal »Henry Thoby Prinsep, History of the Political and Military Transactions in India during the Administration of the Marques of Hastings 1813-1823 (Two Volumes) (London: Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1825) Many of the writings of Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792–1878),…
Read More: On Nípal War 1814-1816 »Clements R. Markham, Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa (London: Trubner & Co., 1876) Clements R. Markham, the then president of the Royal Geographical Society of Britain, did a marvelous job when…
Read More: The George Bogle’s Mission »Hodgson’s Essays on the Language, Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet (London: Trubner & Company, 57 & 58 Ludgat Hill, 1874) No other contemporary scholar than Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 -1894) established himself as a pioneer naturalist and…
Read More: Language, Literature, and Religion of Nepal »Professor Ralph Lilley Turner’s A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner Co Ltd. 1931) Professor Ralph Lilley Turner’s A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London:…
Read More: The First Modern Nepali-English Dictionary »William Brook Northey, The Land of the Gurkhas or The Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal [Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1937] William Brook Northey’s The Land of the Gurkhas or The Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal [Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1937] was published 14…
Read More: The Land of Gurkhas »Lieutenant Colonel George Hart Desmond Gimlette’s Nepal and the Nepalese (London: H. F. & G. Witherbyn, 1927) was published at a time when the Prime Minister of Nepal was Chandra Shamsher JBR. The book came into its present shape after sixteen years of the…
Read More: Gimlette's Account of Nepal »(Vol 06, No. 22, May 10, 2013) Thomas Watters' two volume book On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1904/1905) was put in order from an unpublished manuscript after his death in 1901. Yuan Chwang, also known as Hiuen…
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