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139517
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The New York-born journalist and travel writer Francis Nichols (1879-1904) is best known for his travels through early 20th-century China. However, his attempt in 1903-4 to travel through Tibet to Lhasa ahead of the Younghusband Mission, and thus to become the first westerner to reach the city, has been forgotten, partly on account of his death in the field and the loss of his diary. From new research in recently-catalogued documents and letters in the archives of the American Geographical Society (AGS), the author has compiled an account of Nichols’ mission to Lhasa, including the support he received from US backers, including the AGS, his travels in China, Tibet and India, and his relations with Younghusband and the British. Although Nichols was unable to reach Lhasa, the author observes that he should be credited as the first American to travel from India into the Chumbi valley in southern Tibet and across the Tibetan plateau from Phari to the town of Gyantse, 120 miles south-west of Lhasa.
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047811
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London, routledgeCurzon, 2003.
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v1 (xxvii, 624p.), v2 (xiii, 789p.), v3 (xiv, 737p.)
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Vol 1: The early period: to c. AD 850: the Yarlung Dynasty
Vol 2: The mediaval period: c. 850-1895: the development of Buddhist paramountey
Vol 3: The modern period: 1885-1959: the encounter with modernity
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0700715088
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Copies: C:3/I:0,R:3,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 047121 | 951.5/MCK 047121 | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | |
| 047122 | 951.5/MCK 047122 | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | |
| 047123 | 951.5/MCK 047123 | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | |
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177554
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In this article I draw on Robb”s insights (“The Colonial State and Constructions of Indian Identity” Modern Asian Studies, 1997), in discussing how during the British period (1888 to 1918), Indian structures were introduced and established in Sikkim closely following models used in British India. In areas such as law and justice, health, education, taxation and communication systems, Sikkim was structurally aligned with India. In contrast, however, the colonial era processes of national identity construction in Sikkim entirely excluded identification with an Indian Nation. Under the British, Sikkimese identity was constructed as a Tibetan Buddhist state comprising “indigenous” Bhutia-Lepcha citizens. That identity excluded immigrants whose origins were in the Gurkha kingdom. As a result of the social processes that imagined Sikkim as an (independent) Buddhist Nation, none of the ethnic communities in Sikkim identified themselves as “Indian”, leaving Sikkim structurally equipped but socially unprepared for membership of an Indian Nation.
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054505
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Richmond, Curzon Press, 1997.
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xxvi, 293p.hbk
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London Studies on South Asia; no.14
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0700706275
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| 044406 | 951.5/MCK 044406 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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