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Returning History to the Hills as the Schlagintweit Drawings Reach Dehradun
The Schlagintweit drawings remind us that the Himalaya was never a distant, untouched image—it was always being seen, measured, and shaped through many eyes and many journeys. In…
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The Closing That Opened New Worlds
What followed didn’t feel like a structured talk. It felt more like listening to someone think out loud—moving from one idea to another, letting stories connect in unexpected…
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Pundit of Pundits: The Man Who Measured the Himalayas—Step by Step
From a hesitant porter to one of the greatest surveyors of Asia, Nain Singh Rawat’s journey reveals how knowledge is sometimes built not in institutions, but step by…
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Himalayan Encounters – Hidden Views from 170 Years Ago
The Schlagintweit Drawings in India Step into a rare visual journey across the Himalayas as seen through the eyes of 19th-century explorers. Himalayan Encounters presents a remarkable collection…
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Bicentenary Reflections on William Moorcroft and His Chronicler
A Virtual Seminar in Memory of William Moorcroft and Prof. Garry Alder The year 2025 marks the bicentenary of the death of William Moorcroft (1767–1825), widely regarded as…
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Beyond Exploration: The Human Stories Behind the Schlagintweit Drawings
Part – 1 I had read about the Schlagintweit brothers before, but learning that their drawings would be exhibited in India for the first time—through a collaboration between…
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Himalayan Encounters: Intellectual Dialogue Revisits 170-Year-Old Himalayan Explorations
As part of the ongoing exhibition “Himalayan Encounters: Hidden Views from 170 Years Ago,” a special interactive session titled “Conversations on Schlagintweit Drawings” was held on April 22,…
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170 साल पुराने हिमालय के छिपे दृश्य, अब प्रदर्शनी में
नई दिल्ली स्थित इंडिया इंटरनेशनल सेंटर (एनेक्सी, 40 मैक्स मूलर मार्ग) में 22 से 29 अप्रैल 2026 तक “Himalayan Encounters – Hidden Views from 170 Years Ago: The…
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Himalayan Encounters Exhibition Opens at India International Centre
New Delhi, April 21, 2026 — An important exhibition titled “Himalayan Encounters – Hidden Views from 170 Years Ago: The Schlagintweit Drawings/Images in India” has opened at the…
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गोरे को अपने उड्यार में देख औतरने लगे वनराजि!
129 साल पहले सैवेज लैंडर ने खींची थी वनराजियों की पहली तस्वीर लैंडर को अपनी बस्ती में नहीं आने देना चाहते थे वनवासी हेनरी सैवेज लैंडर एक ब्रिटिश,…
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Trends in Doctoral Dissertations in History in Uttarakhand 1969-2020
(Kumaun University, HNB Garhwal University, Gurukul Kangri University and Uttarakhand Open University) The text is a modest attempt to report, narrate and index five-decade long history of doctoral…