Origins of Himalayan studies: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling 1820-1858

by David M. Waterhouse

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First edition

Routledge, 2014 . First edition, 8vo, pp. 280, 4 ; original printed white wrappers; fine copy. Brian Houghton Hodgson was a nineteenth-century administrator and scholar who lived in Nepal, where he was the British Resident from 1820 until 1843. After this, he worked as an independent scholar in Darjeeling until 1858. During his time in the Himalayas, Hodgson, with extraordinary dedication, laid the foundations for the study of the eastern Himalayan region,

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