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BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON

BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON (1800-1895), Orientalist, born near Macclesfield; served in the East India Company, and was Resident in Nepal for more than 20 years; was a voluminous writer on Eastern ethnology, languages, and zoology, and his valuable collection of MSS. remains the chief source of our knowledge of northern Buddhism.


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