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The Pundits : British exploration of Tibet and Central Asia /
On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his tr...
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2004.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Waller, Derek J. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Pundits : |b British exploration of Tibet and Central Asia / |c Derek Waller. |
| 260 | |a Lexington, Kentucky : |b University Press of Kentucky, |c 2004. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Preface; 1. The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India; 2. First Attempts: Abdul Hamid and Nain Singh; 3. Across the Northwest Frontier: The Mirza, the Havildar, and the Mullah; 4. To Tibet and Beyond: The Singh Family; Illustrations; 5. The Forsyth Missions to Yarkand and Kashgar; 6. Around Everest and Kanchenjunga: Hari Ram and Rinzing Namgyal; 7. ""A Hardy Son of Soft Bengal""; 8. The Tsangpo-Brahmaputra Controversy: Lala, Nem Singh, and Kintup; 9. Questions of Secrecy; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Note on Map Sources; Index; A; B; C. | |
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| 520 | |a On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers -- recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India -- who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presen. | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a Tibet Autonomous Region (China) |x Description and travel. | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Asie centrale |x Descriptions et voyages. | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) |x Descriptions et voyages. | |
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| 651 | 7 | |a China |z Tibet Autonomous Region. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01758817 | |
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