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A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet
Second edition cover
AuthorSarat Chandra Das
GenreTravel literature
PublisherJohn Murray, E. P. Dutton
Publication date
1902
TextA Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet at Wikisource

A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet is a nonfiction book written by Sarat Chandra Das, published in 1902. It is a travelogue of Das' second visit to Tibet in 1881 under the orders of the British Raj.[1]

  1. ^ Nayar, Pramod K. (December 2012). "Beyond the Colonial Subject: Mobility. Cosmopolitanism and Self-Fashioning in Sarat Chandra Das' A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 14 (2): 1–16. ISSN 1174-8915.

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