Kate Teltscher has written about Indian literature and colonial works for both an academic and general readership. Her book The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet (Bloomsbury, 2006; Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007) was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography.
Everyone interested in British India should have a copy.
*Andrew Robinson, The Independent*
[Hobson-Jobson] is a work of extraordinary Victorian scholarship,
compiled over 14 years. At the same time, it's an eccentric
compilation of the language and lore of British India, with the
same delightfully rambling, anecdotal quality as, say Brewer's
Phrase & Fable, though slightly more reliable.
*John Morril, The Tablet*
Hobson-Jobson is a classic of British teamwork. Its editors, Yule
and Burnell, should be as celebrated as Gilbert and Sullivan,
Liddell and Scott or Fortnum and Mason. For Hobson-Jobson is a rare
dictionary that can be read for pleasure, like an old edition of
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
*Christopher Howse, Sunday Telegraph*
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