Report from Lhasa

by Dor Bahadur Bista

A description of the Tibetan capital by the Royal Nepal Consul-General to Lhasa between 1972 and 1975, the anthropologist Dor Bahadur Bista.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Dor Bahadur Bista (Nepali: डोर बहादुर बिस्ट) is a Nepalese anthropologist, social scientist and activist. Bista is considered the father of Nepalese anthropology, and has published such popular books as Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for Modernization and People of Nepal.

Bista mysteriously disappeared in 1995.

Reviews

[Rabi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Picked this up hoping for a revealing dispatch from post-Cultural Revolution Tibet from the iconoclastic Dor Bahadur Bista, but it soon devolves into what it says on the tin of 'Report from Lhasa': a dull trudge through the monasteries and factories and statistics of China's Tibet, verging on apologism for the invasion. Disappointing, but in itself revealing of how ensconced DB Bista, as Consul General to Lhasa, was within the Nepali state prior to his late 80s awakening of 'Fatalism and Development'.

[Anu · Rating 4 out of 5]

decent picture of china, and cultural revolution. and tight slap to imperialist bootlickers who try to picture the liberation of tibet by the CPC as some kind of invsion of sort.