Thursday 26 October 2017

Meet Sarat Chandra Das: The spy who came in from the cold of Tibet and wrote a book about it - Scroll.in


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Meet Sarat Chandra Das: The spy who came in from the cold of Tibet and wrote a book about it
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Trained as an engineer, he went to Tibet in the late nineteenth century on a secret mission, became a well-known Buddhist scholar on his return, and even wrote a thousand-page dictionary of the Tibetan language. He also became a Rai Bahadur, ...



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