A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet
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| Author | Sarat Chandra Das |
|---|---|
| Genre | Travel literature |
| Publisher | John Murray, E. P. Dutton |
Publication date | 1902 |
| Text | A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet at Wikisource |
A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet is a nonfiction book written by Sarat Chandra Das, published in 1902. It is a travelogue of Das' second visit to Tibet in 1881 under the orders of the British Raj.[1]
Initial reception
[edit]The British magazine The Athenaeum liked the book's inclusion of illustrations of buildings and a photograph of Lhasa, but viewed the images of mountains towards the book's end as being irrelevant to its content.[2]
The Academy and Literature called the book "the most authentic account of Tibet now extant" and said that Das positions himself as a "shrewd observer, remarkably well-informed, a man of courage and resource."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Nayar, Pramod K. (December 2012). "Beyond the Colonial Subject: Mobility. Cosmopolitanism and Self-Fashioning in Sarat Chandra Das' A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 14 (2): 1–16. ISSN 1174-8915.
- ^ "Review of A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet". The Athenaeum. No. 3918. 29 November 1902. pp. 725–726 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "A Hindoo Explorer". The Academy and Literature. Vol. 63, no. 1593. 15 November 1902. pp. 522–523 – via Internet Archive.
Further reading
[edit]- Boosè, James R. (1 December 1902). "Review of A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet". Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute. 34 (1): 54–55 – via ProQuest.
- "Art. IV.—Tibet". The Edinburgh Review. Vol. 201, no. 412. April 1905. pp. 338–360. ISSN 1751-8482 – via Internet Archive.
- "Review of A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet". National Geographic Magazine. Vol. 13, no. 12. December 1902. p. 464. ISSN 0027-9358 – via HathiTrust.
- "Through Tibet: Sarat Chandra Das's Journey to Lhasa—A Visit to the Grand Lama". The New York Times. Vol. 52, no. 16583. 28 February 1903. p. 144. ISSN 0362-4331 – via Internet Archive.
- Parker, Edward Harper (January–April 1903). "Review of A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet". The Asiatic Quarterly Review. 15 (29–30): 424–425 – via Google Books.
- "Review of A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet". The Spectator. Vol. 89, no. 3878. 25 October 1902. pp. 614–615. ISSN 0038-6952 – via Internet Archive.
- Subramanian, Samanth (16 March 2016). "The Indian Spy Who Fell for Tibet". The New York Times Magazine. pp. 60–61. ISSN 0028-7822.
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