Frederick P. Gibbon, A prisoner of the Gurkhas (London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1904) The book A Prisoner of the Gurkhas (London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1904) is one of the few books written by Frederick P. Gibbon on…
W. W. Hunter, Life of Brian Houghton Hodgson (London: John Murray, 1896) Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of state in the interest of one’s own country. Brian H. Hodgson [1801-1894], who served in Nepal as…
Jogesh Chunder Dutt, Kings of Kashmira: Being a translation of the Sanskrita work Rajataranggini (London: Trubner & Co, 1879) The Rajataranggini, a twelfth century book, which explains the history of Kashmir, has many important references about the Khas people. Written in Sanskrit by a…
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 papers on the…
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 a half exploring these…
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 special mention.…
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…
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 on…
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), an English official of…
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