Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling, 1820-1858 /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by David M. Waterhouse.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
RoutledgeCurzon,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiv, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color) ;
Dimensions
25 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Royal Asiatic Society books
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Brian Hodgson : a biographical sketch / David Waterhouse -- The political role of Brian Hodgson / John Whelpton -- Brian Hodgson : the unsung story / Harihar Raj Joshi -- The ambivalent exegete : Hodgson's contributions to the study of Buddhism / Donald S. Lopez, Jr -- The architectural monuments of Buddhism : Hodgson and the Buddhist architecture of the Kathmandu Valley / J.P. Losty -- Zoology amuses me much / Ann Datta and Carol Inskipp -- Brian Hodgson and the mammals and other animals of Nepal / Ann Datta -- A pioneer of Himalayan ornithology / Carol Inskipp -- Hodgson, Hooker, and the Himalayan frontier / David Arnold -- Brian Hodgson as ethnographer and ethnologist / Martin Gaenszle -- Hodgson's Tibeto-Burman and Tibeto-Burman today / George van Driem -- Hodgson's legacy / David Waterhouse.