A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet

1902 book by Sarat Chandra Das
A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet
Second edition cover
AuthorSarat Chandra Das
GenreTravel literature
PublisherJohn Murray, E. P. Dutton
Publication date
1902
TextA 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

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Review of A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet". The Athenaeum. No. 3918. 29 November 1902. pp. 725–726 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "A Hindoo Explorer". The Academy and Literature. Vol. 63, no. 1593. 15 November 1902. pp. 522–523 – via Internet Archive.

Further reading

  • 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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