The origins of Himalayan studies
Subtitle: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling, 1820-1858
By: edited by David M. Waterhouse.
Contributors: Waterhouse, David M., 1937-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Royal Asiatic Society books
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Hodgson, B. H. 1800-1894.; Scholars -- Himalaya Mountains Region -- Biography.; Scholars -- Great Brtain -- Biography.; Himalaya Mountains Region -- Study and teaching.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Brian Hodgson : a biographical sketch / David Waterhouse; title: The political role of Brian Hodgson / John Whelpton; title: Brian Hodgson : the unsung story / Harihar Raj Joshi; title: The ambivalent exegete : Hodgson's contribution to the study of Buddhism / Donald S. Lopez, Jr; title: The architectural monuments of Buddhism : Hodgson and the Buddhist architecture of the Kathmandu Valley / J.P. Losty; title: Zoology amuses me much / Ann Datta and Carol Inskipp; title: Brian Hodgson and the mammals and other animals of Nepal / Ann Datta; title: A pioneer of Himalayan ornithology / Carol Inskipp; title: Hodgson, Hooker, and the Himalayan frontier / David Arnold; title: Brian Hodgson as ethnographer and ethnologist / Martin Gaenszle; title: Hodgson's Tibeto-Burman and Tibeto-Burman today / George van Driem; title: Hodgson's legacy / David Waterhouse.