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Great Game MapsPosted Sep-26-06 15:42:23 PDT Updated Sep-26-06 15:42:32 PDT This really has nothing to do with the fact that I work at eBay. For years and years I have been fascinated with with the Great Game and the explorers of that period. One of the most romantic yet intriguing set of explorers of that period were The Pundits -- Indians who would disguise themselves as Pilgrims and map out territories in Central Asia and Tibet that foreigners were forbidden to enter. (Here's a nice article on the Pundits; there's also a great book on the The Pundits by Derek Waller of Indiana University.) I've been looking for the Pundit maps for a long time. There were pubished in the late 1800s by the Royal Geographic Society. I finally tracked one down at The Map House in Beauchamp Place in London (about 10 minutes walk from Harrods in Knightsbridge.) And then I found a couple more on eBay last week for a quarter of what I paid in London. Now I have the map and associated monograph of the most important of these journeys: Account Of The Pundit's (Nain Singh) Journey In Great Tibet From Leh In Ladakh To Lhasa & Of His Return To India Via Assam from 1877. I think this one will join the other other framed Pandit map in my study.
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