Table of Contents

List of Maps
Nomenclature
Approach March
Section 1 - Religion - A Different Type of Reality
1. The Magic of Upper Dolpo
2. Early Days in Tibet
3. A Buddhist Renaissance
4. Circling the Prey
5. The Modern Scholars
6. Escape from Tyranny
Section 2 - The Plates Must Speak
Prologue - Caught by a Quake
7. A Long Story, but not for a Geologist
8. Science under the Raj
9. Getting Closer to the Mountains
10.0The Consummate Professionals
11. The Eureka Moment
Section 3 - Politics - Controlling the Margins
Prologue - Trial by Fire
12. Kashmir Beginnings
13. The British get their Foot In
14. Trouble in Paradise
15. The China-Tibet Conundrum
16. War in the North-East
17. A Couple of Shangri-Las
Postscript - Srinagar Revisited
Section 4 - Society - A Nepalese Story
Prologue - Wildcatting
18. An exploding Diaspora
19. Fundamental Inequalities
20. Political Interlude
21. A People's War
22. State of Play
Postscript - The Far West

About the Author

Since 1965, Henry Edmundson has climbed and trekked in the Afghan Hindu Kush, The Pakistan Karakoram, and the length and breadth of the Indian, Nepalese and Bhutanese Himalaya. He is a member of the Alpine club, and the Himalayan club, and is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. He resides in Cambridge, in the UK.

Reviews

A tour de force if ever there was one! Wide-ranging doesn t even start! It is wonderfully well produced and the great photos and images add so much to it. Many congratulations! It deserves to be very widely read. . --General Sir Sam Cowan, Colonel Commandant of the Brigade of Gurkhas, author of Essays on Nepal-What an impressive work! A real tour de horizon of Himalayan history, science, climbing and politics, with excellent pictures contemporary and archival to boot. This is something to read again and again. You ve done a huge amount of work and produced a reference volume that should easily stand the test of time. Congratulations! --Suman Dubey, former editor of Indian Express, managing editor of India Today and one-time media advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.