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A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet

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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

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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

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  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

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