Himalaya

by Ed Douglas

Molenaar, Dee, ‘Hans Peter Misch 1909–1987’, American Alpine Journal, 1988.

  Monika, Chansoria, ‘Reaching Tibet in July 1900 via British India and Nepal: Journey of the First Japanese, Ekai Kawaguchi’, Policy Brief, Japan Institute of International Affairs (www.jiia-jic.jp/en), 2019.

  Moorcroft, William, ‘A Journey to Lake Mánasaróvara in Ún-dés, a Province of Little Tibet’, Asiatick Researches 12, 1816.

  Moore, L G, et al., ‘Maternal Adaptation to High-Altitude Pregnancy: An Experiment of Nature – A Review’, Placenta 25, 2004.

  Mulmi, Amish Raj, ‘The Making of the Gorkha Empire’, The Record (recordnepal.com), Aug 2017.

  ———, ‘Using Shikhar Diplomacy in 19th-Century Nepal’, The Wire (thewire.in), 19 Aug 2017.

  ———, ‘Momo: The One Dumpling that Rules them All’, LiveMint (livemint.com), 22 Sep 2017.

  Nalesini, Oscar, ‘A Short History of the Tibet Explorations of Giuseppe Tucci’, in Seccaroni, C, et al. (eds), Visibilia Invisibilium, Rome, 2011.

  Neame, Philip, ‘Tibet and the 1936 Lhasa Mission’, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 26, 1939.

  Norbu, Dawa, ‘The Europeanization of Sino-Tibetan Relations, 1775–1907’, Tibet Journal 15, 1990.

  Norbu, Jamyang, ‘The Incredible Weariness of Hope: Review of Tibet, Tibet by Patrick French’, Phayul (phayul.com), 2003.

  ———, ‘Untangling a Mess of Petrified Noodles: Reflections on Gyalo Thondup and Modern Tibetan History’, Shadow Tibet (www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog), 29 June 2016.

  Pathak, Sunitikumar, ‘British Activities in India during the Gorkha–Tibet War II (1854–56)’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 23, 1960.

  Pearse, Hugh, ‘Moorcroft and Hearsey’s Visit to Lake Mansarowar in 1812’, The Geographical Journal 26, 1905.

  Peng, Y, et al., ‘Genetic Variations in Tibetan Populations and High-Altitude Adaptation at the Himalayas’, Molecular Biology Evolution 28, 2011.

  Pereira, George, ‘Peking to Lhasa (from the Diaries of the Late Brigadier-General George Pereira)’, Geographical Journal 64, 1924.

  Pradhan, Kamal, ‘The Myth of Chinese Suzerainty’, Voice of Tibet 1, 1967.

  Qiu, Jane, ‘Tibetan Plateau Gets Wired up for Monsoon Prediction’, Nature 524, 2014.

  ———, ‘Listening for Landslides: A Year after a Devastating Earthquake Triggered Killer Avalanches and Rock Falls in Nepal, Scientists are Wiring up Mountainsides to Forecast Hazards’, Nature 532, 2016.

  ———, ‘Tibetan Plateau Discovery Shows Humans May Be Tougher Than We Thought’, Scientific American, December 2016.

  ———, ‘The Surprisingly Early Settlement of the Tibetan Plateau’, Scientific American, March 2017.

  Rana, R, ‘B H Hodgson as a Factor in the Fall of Bhimsen Thapa’, Ancient Nepal 105, 1988.

  Raper, F V, ‘Narrative of a Survey for the Purpose of Discovering the Sources of the Ganges’, Asiatick Researches 11, 1810.

  Rawlinson, H G, ‘A Forgotten Hero; Some Notes on the Life and Work of Csoma de Körös’, Journal of Indian History 8, 1929.

  Regmi Research (Private) Ltd, ‘The Salt Trade during the Nepal-Tibet War’, Regmi Research Series 16, 1984.

  Richardson, Hugh, ‘George Bogle and his Children’, Scottish Genealogist 29, 1982.

  Riccardi, Theodore (trans.), ‘Sylvain Lévi: The History of Nepal. Part I’, Kailash 3, 1975.

  Romolo, Gandolfo, ‘Bhutan and Tibet in European Cartography (1597–1800)’, in The Spider and the Piglet: Proceedings of the First Seminar on Bhutan Studies, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, 2004.

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  Rubenson, Carl W, ‘An Ascent of Kabru’, Alpine Journal 24, 1908.

  Sakya, Tsering, ‘Tibet and the League of Nations with Reference to Letters Found in the India Office Library, under Sir Charles Bell’s Collections’, Tibet Journal 10, 1985.

  ———, ‘Making of the Great Game Players: Tibetan Students in Britain between 1913 and 1917’, Tibetan Review 21, 1986.

  ———, ‘Interview: Beyond Development and Diversity’, Himal Southasian (himalmag.com), 25 June 2018.

  Sankararaman, Sriram, et al., ‘The Combined Landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans’, Current Biology 26, 2016.

  Santoli, Ali, and Getachew, Mahlet, ‘“The Tibetan People Seek Dignity, Freedom and Respect”: An Interview with Former Tibetan Political Prisoner, Ms Ngawang Sangdrol’, 2003.

  Sarkar, Swatahsiddha, ‘Obituary: Kumar Pradhan (1937–2013)’, Himalaya 34, 2014.

  Schaik, Sam van, ‘Review: The Gathering of Intentions: A History of Tibetan Buddhist Tantra, by Jacob P Dalton’, Buddhist Studies Review 35, 2018.

  Selin, Eva, ‘Carl Rubenson, Kabru and the Birth of the Norwegian AC’, Alpine Journal 113, 2008.

  Sen, Jahar, ‘India’s Trade with Central Asia via Nepal’, Bulletin of Tibetology 8, 1971.

  ———, ‘Arms Deal between India and Nepal: Genesis of Gurkha Recruitment in the British Army’, Calcutta History Journal 4, 1980.

  Shakya, Min Bahadur, ‘Nepalese Buddhist Artist Arniko and his Contribution to Buddhist Heritage of China’, Nagarjuna Institute, n. d.

  Sharma, Prayag Raj, ‘Kirkpatrick’s An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal’, Contributions to Nepalese Studies 1, 1973.

  Shivram, Balkrishan, ‘Reflections on 1857 Revolt: A Study of Himachal Pradesh’, The Punjab Past and Present 37, 2006.

  Shrestha, Bal Gopal, ‘Ritual and Identity in the Diaspora: The Newars of Sikkim’, Bulletin of Tibetology 25, 2011.

  Shuttleworth, H Lee, ‘A Wool Mart of the Indo-Tibetan Borderland’, Geographical Review 13, 1923.

  Slusser, Mary S, ‘The Lhasa gTsug lag khang: Further Observations on the Ancient Wood Carvings’, Asian Art (asianart.com), 7 February 2006.

  Smyth, Edmund, ‘Obituary: The Pundit Nain Singh’, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 4, 1882.

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  Toffin, Gérard, ‘Royal Images and Ceremonies of Power in Nepal (17th–21st Centuries)’, Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici, 2008.

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  Truschke, Audrey, ‘The Power of the Islamic Sword in Narrating the Death of Indian Buddhism’, History of Religions 57, 2018.

  Wade, Nicholas, ‘Scientists Cite Fastest Case of Human Evolution’, New York Times, 1 July 2010.

  Wang, B, et al., ‘On the Origin of Tibetans and their Genetic Basis in Adapting High-Altitude Environments’, PLoS ONE 6, 2011.

  Wang, Y, et al., ‘The Effect of Low Density over the “Roof of the World” Tibetan Plateau on the Triggering of Convection’, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, July 2019.

  Ward, Michael, ‘The Survey of India and the Pundits’, Alpine Journal 103, 1998.

  West, John B, ‘A M Kellas: Pioneer Himalayan Physiologist Mountaineer’, Alpine Journal 94, 1989.

  ———, ‘Alexander M Kellas and the Physiological Challenge of Mount Everest’, Journal of Applied Physiology 63, 1987.

  Whelpton, John, ‘A Reading Guide to Nepalese History’, Himalaya 25, 2005.

  Witzel, Michael, ‘The Coronation Rituals of Nepal: With Special Reference to the Coronation of King Birendra (1975)’, in Gutschow, Niels, and Michaels, Alex (eds), Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley. Proceedings of an International Conference in Lübeck, June 1985, Sankt Augustin, 1987.

  Wong, Edward, ‘Printing the Ancient Way Keeps Buddhist Texts Alive in Tibet’, New York Times, 21 March 2017.

  Xu, S, et al., ‘A Genome-Wide Search for Signals of High-Altitude Adaptation in Tibetans’, Molecular Biology Evolution 28, 2011.

  Yamamoto, Carl, ‘Review of Crazy for Wisdom: The Making
of a Mad Yogin in Fifteenth Century Tibet by Stefan Larsson’, Himalaya 32, 2013.

  Yi, X, et al., ‘Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude’, Science 329, 2010.

  Yongdan Lobsang, ‘Tibet Charts the World: The Btsan po No mon han’s Detailed Description of the World, an Early Major Scientific Work in Tibet’, in Tuttle, Gray (ed.), Mapping the Modern in Tibet, [Andiast,] 2011.

  ———, ‘The Translation of European Astronomical Works into Tibetan in the Early Eighteenth Century’, Inner Asia 17, 2015.

  ———, ‘The Introduction of Edward Jenner’s Smallpox Vaccination to Tibet in the Early 19th Century’, Archiv Orientální 84, 2016.

  ———, ‘A Scholarly Imprint: How Tibetan Astronomers Brought Jesuit Astronomy to Tibet’, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 45, 2017.

  Zhao, Yang, et al., ‘Effects of the Tibetan Plateau and its Second Staircase Terrain on Rainstorms over North China: From the Perspective of Water Vapour Transport’, International Journal of Climatology 39, 2019.

  BOOKS AND LONGER WORKS

  Acharya, Baburam, The Blood Stained Throne: Struggles for Power in Nepal 1775–1914, trans. Acharya, Madhav, New Delhi, 2013.

  Adhikari, Aditya, The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal’s Maoist Revolution, London, 2014.

  Adhikari, Krishna Kant, Nepal under Jang Bahadur 1847–1877, 2 vols, Kathmandu, 1984.

  Aitken, Bill, Touching upon the Himalaya, New Delhi, 2004.

  Akbar, M J, Nehru: The Making of India, London, 1988.

  Alder, Garry J, Beyond Bokhara: The Life of William Moorcroft, London, 1985.

  Allen, Charles, The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey into Tibetan History, London, 1999.

  ———, The Buddha and the Sahibs, London, 2002.

  ———, A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India, London, [1982,] 2003.

  ———, Duel in the Snows: The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa, London, 2004.

  ———, The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal 1820–43, London, 2015.

  Anderson, J R L, High Mountains and Cold Seas: A Biography of H W Tilman, London, 1980.

  Anderson, James A, and Whitmore, John K (eds), China’s Encounters on the South and Southwest: Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia, Leiden, 2014.

  Andreyev, Alexandre, et al., The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his Followers on Inner Asian Tracks, Leiden, 2018.

  Archer, Mildred, and Falk, Toby, India Revealed: The Art and Adventures of James and William Fraser 1801–35, London, 1989.

  Aris, Michael, Bhutan: The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom, Warminster, 1979.

  ———, Views of Mediaeval Bhutan: The Diary and Drawings of Samuel Davis, 1783, London, 1982.

  ——— and Aung San Suu Kyi, Tibetan Studies in Honour of Hugh Richardson, Warminster, 1979.

  Astill, Tony, Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance 1935, [Ashurst,] 2005.

  Atkinson, Edwin Thomas, Gazetteer of the Himalayan Districts of the North-Western Provinces of India, 3 vols, Allahabad, 1884.

  Aufschnaiter, Peter, and Brauen, Martin (eds), Peter Aufschnaiter’s Eight Years in Tibet, Bangkok, 2002.

  Avedon, John F, In Exile from the Land of Snows, London, 1984.

  Aziz, Barbara Nimri, Tibetan Frontier Families, Delhi, 1978.

  Baker, Ian A, The Dalai Lama’s Secret Temple, London, 2000.

  Bailey, Frederick Marshman, China, Tibet, Assam: A Journey, London, 1911.

  ———, Mission to Tashkent, London, 1946.

  ———, No Passport to Tibet, 1957.

  Bajpai, S C, Kinnaur in the Himalayas, Delhi, 1981.

  Bajwa, Fauja Singh, Military System of the Sikhs During the Period 1799–1849, Delhi, 1964.

  Bamzai, P N K, A History of Kashmir; Political, Social, Cultural, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Delhi, 1962.

  Banskota, Purushottam, The Gurkha Connection: A History of the Gurkha Recruitment in the British Indian Army, Jaipur, 1994.

  Barnett, Robert, Cutting Off the Serpent’s Head: Tightening Control in Tibet, 1994–1995, New York, 1996.

  ———, Lhasa: Streets with Memories, New York, 2006.

  ——— and Akiner S (eds), Resistance and Reform in Tibet, London, 1994.

  Bates, C E, A Gazetteer of Kashmir, and the Adjacent Districts of Kishtwár, Badrawár, Jamú, Naoshera, Púnch, and the Valley of Kishen Ganga, Calcutta, 1873.

  Bauer, Paul, Himalayan Quest, London, 1938.

  Baumgartner, Ruedi, Farewell to Yak and Yeti? The Sherpas of Rolwaling Facing a Globalised World, Kathmandu, 2015.

  Bell, Charles, Tibet Past and Present, Oxford, 1924.

  ———, The People of Tibet, Oxford, 1928.

  ———, The Religion of Tibet, Oxford, 1931.

  ———, Portrait of a Dalai Lama, London, 1946.

  Bellezza, John Vincent, The Dawn of Tibet: The Ancient Civilization on the Roof of the World, Lanham, 2014.

  Bernard, Theos Casimir, Penthouse of the Gods: A Pilgrimage into the Heart of Tibet and the Sacred City of Lhasa, New York, 1939.

  Bernstein, Jeremy, In the Himalayas: Journeys through Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan, New York, 1996.

  Berry, Scott, Monks, Spies, and a Soldier of Fortune: The Japanese in Tibet, London, 1995.

  Bishop, Peter, The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape, London, 1991.

  Bista, Dor Bahadur, People of Nepal, Kathmandu, 1967.

  ———, Fatalism and Development: Nepal’s Struggle for Modernisation, Kathmandu, 1991.

  Boileau, Digby W, et al., ‘The Chronicles of the Family of Boileau’, unpublished, n.d.

  Braham, Trevor, Himalayan Playground: Adventures on the Roof of the World 1942–72, Glasgow, 2008.

  Brauen, Martin, Dreamworld Tibet: Western Illusions, Bangkok, 2004.

  Bruce, Charles G, Kulu and Lahoul, London, 1914.

  ———, The Assault on Mount Everest 1922, London, 1922.

  ———, Himalayan Wanderer, London, 1934.

  Buckley, Michael, Meltdown in Tibet: China’s Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia, New York, 2014.

  Buhl, Hermann, Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, London, 1956.

  Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, Vril, the Power of the Coming Race, London, 1871.

  Byron, Robert, First Russia, Then Tibet, London, 1933.

  Cams, Mario, Companions in Geography: East–West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (c.1685–1735), Leiden, 2017.

  Chan, Victor, Tibet Handbook, Chico, 1994.

  Chapman, Frederick Spencer, Lhasa: The Holy City, London, 1938.

  ———, From Helvellyn to Himalaya, London, 1940.

  Chapple, John, The Lineages and Composition of Gurkha Regiments in British Service, 2nd ed., Winchester, 2013.

  Chopel, Gendun, In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems, ed. and trans. Lopez, Donald S, Chicago, 2009.

  ———, Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler, trans. Jinpa, Thupten, and Lopez, Donald S, Chicago, 2014.

  Clinch, Elizabeth, and Nicholas, Through a Land of Extremes: The Littledales of Central Asia, Stroud, 2008.

  Cocker, Mark, and Inskipp, Carol, A Himalayan Ornithologist: Life and Work of Brian Houghton Hodgson, Oxford, 1988.

  Coleman, A P, A Special Corps: The Beginning of Gorkha Service with the British, Edinburgh, 1999.

  Collie, Norman, Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges, Edinburgh, 1902.

  Collister, Peter, Bhutan and the British, London, 1987.

  Conefrey, Mick, Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent, London, 2013.

  Conner, Victoria, and Barnett, Robert, Leaders in Tibet: A Directory, London, 1997.

  Cooper, Thomas Thornville, Journal of an Overland Journey from China towards India, Calcutta, 1869.

  Cowan, Sam, Essays on Nepal: Past and Present
, Kathmandu, 2018.

  Craig, Mary, Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet, London, 1992.

  ———, Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama, London, 1997.

  Cranston, Sylvia, H P B: The Extraordinary Life of Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Founder of the Modern Theosophical Movement, New York, 1994.

  Cunningham, Alexander, Ladak, Physical, Statistical, and Historical; With Notices of the Surrounding Countries, London, 1854.

  Dahal, Pushpa Kamal, Problems and Prospects of Revolution in Nepal, Kathmandu, 2004.

  Dalrymple, William, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, London, 1993.

  ———, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India, London, 2002.

  ———, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857, London, 2006.

  Danielli, Giotto, and Spranger, J A, Storia della Spedizione Scientifica Italiana nel Himàlaia, Caracorùm e Turchestàn Cinese (1913–1914), Bologna, 1924.

  Dasgupta, Atis K, The Fakir and the Sannyasi Uprisings, Calcutta, 1992.

  Datta, C L, Ladakh and Western Himalayan Politics: 1819–1848, New Delhi, 1973.

  Dattaray, Sunanda K, Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim, revised ed., Chennai, 2013.

  David-Néel, Alexandra, My Journey to Lhasa, London, 1927.

  Davis, Wade, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, London, 2011.

  Desideri, Ippolito, An Account of Tibet: The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, London, 1932.

  Dhondup, Kelsang, The Water-Horse and Other Years: A History of 17th and 18th Century Tibet, Dharamsala, 1984

  ———, The Water-Bird and Other Years: A History of the 13th Dalai Lama and After, New Delhi, 1986.

  Diemberger, Hildegard, When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet, New York, 2007.

  Digby, William, A Friend in Need, 1857, Friendship Forgotten, 1887: An Episode in Indian Foreign Office Administration, London, 1890.

  Dikötter, Frank, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957, New York, 2013.

  DiValerio, David M, The Holy Madmen of Tibet, Oxford, 2015.

  Dixit, Kanak Mani, Peace Politics of Nepal: An Opinion From Within, Kathmandu, 2011.

  ——— & Ramachandaran, Shastri (eds), State of Nepal, Lalitpur, 2002.

  Dodin, Thierry, and Räther, Heinz (eds), Imagining Tibet: Perceptions, Projections, And Fantasies, Somerville, 2001.