NAIN SINGH RAWAT (1830-95)
By Joseph Thomas
When I first mentioned Nain Singh, Surjit asked “Who was Nain Singh ?”
While awarding the Patron’s medal in 1877, the Royal Geographic Society said “either of his great journeys in Tibet would have brought this reward to any European explorer; to have made two such journeys adding so enormously to accurate knowledge . . . is what no European but the first rank of travelers like Livingstone or Grant have done . . . . His observations have added a larger amount of important knowledge to the map of Asia than those of any other living man.”
Yet, Nain Singh Rawat is little known outside of the small world of Indian surveyors. So this is a tribute to a great but little known surveyor.
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