David M. Waterhouse is Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was British Council Director in Nepal from 1972 to 1977.

'This book has been very well produced and is a serious academic work from which much further research is possible.' - Nepal Society'The whole work is a wonderful celebration of an extraordinary man, whose reputation was eclipsed in a twentieth century that cherished the specialist and suspected the amateur.' - Asian Affairs'This is a well-produced book, with some wonderful illustrations, many of them not previously available.' - Chowkidar

• List of Illustrations  Preface  Acknowledgements  Abbreviations and Technical Note  Details of Contributors  Foreword  1. Brian Hodgson - A Biographical Sketch  2. The Political Role of Brian Hodgson  3. Brian Hodgson - The Unsung Story  4. The Ambivalent Exegete - Hodgson's Contribution to the Study of Buddhism  5. The Architectural Monuments of Buddhism - Hodgson and the Buddhist Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley  Appendix - B.H.Hodgson's Essay: Architectural Illustrations of Buddhism  6. Zoology Amuses Me Much  7. Brian Hodgson and the Mammals and other Animals of Nepal  8. A Pioneer of Himalayan Ornithology  9. Hodgson, Hooker and the Himalayan Frontier  10. Brian Hodgson as Ethnographer and Ethnologist  11. Hodgson's Tibeto-Burman and Tibeto-Burman Today  12. Hodgson's Legacy  Bibliography  Index

David M. Waterhouse is Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was British Council Director in Nepal from 1972 to 1977.

'This book has been very well produced and is a serious academic work from which much further research is possible.' - Nepal Society'The whole work is a wonderful celebration of an extraordinary man, whose reputation was eclipsed in a twentieth century that cherished the specialist and suspected the amateur.' - Asian Affairs'This is a well-produced book, with some wonderful illustrations, many of them not previously available.' - Chowkidar

• List of Illustrations  Preface  Acknowledgements  Abbreviations and Technical Note  Details of Contributors  Foreword  1. Brian Hodgson - A Biographical Sketch  2. The Political Role of Brian Hodgson  3. Brian Hodgson - The Unsung Story  4. The Ambivalent Exegete - Hodgson's Contribution to the Study of Buddhism  5. The Architectural Monuments of Buddhism - Hodgson and the Buddhist Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley  Appendix - B.H.Hodgson's Essay: Architectural Illustrations of Buddhism  6. Zoology Amuses Me Much  7. Brian Hodgson and the Mammals and other Animals of Nepal  8. A Pioneer of Himalayan Ornithology  9. Hodgson, Hooker and the Himalayan Frontier  10. Brian Hodgson as Ethnographer and Ethnologist  11. Hodgson's Tibeto-Burman and Tibeto-Burman Today  12. Hodgson's Legacy  Bibliography  Index