Table of Contents

The Great Trigonometrial Survery of india First Attempts Across the Northwest Frontier To Tibet and Beyond The Forsyth Missions to Yarkand and Kashgar Around Everest and Kanchenjunga "A Hardy Son of Soft Bengal" The Tsangpo-Brahmaputra Controversy

About the Author

Derek Waller, professor emeritus of political science at Vanderbilt University, was the author of The Government and Politics of the People's Republic of China.

Reviews

"A fascinating and historically important book about the frontier policies of the British empire, policies bearing some resonance even today as controversy over frontiers (the Durnad Line, the McMahon Line) in the region continues." -- American Historical Review

"A necessary, important, and highly readable book which must rival any yet published in shedding fresh light on nineteenth-century exploration." -- London Independent

"An excellent and very well-researched book; for the first time the explorations of the Pundits have been recorded in one book, and we can be grateful to Derek Waller for having done it so well." -- USI Journal