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Kinthup, a
Lepcha man from Sikkim, was an
explorer in the area of
Tibet in the 1880s. He is best
known for his
impressive devotion to duty in surveying...
- (holy man).
These native surveyors are
called pundits. One such pundit,
Kinthup, was the
first person to
discover that the
Tsangpo River was a tributary...
- "pundits" to do the footwork.
Kinthup from
Sikkim entered the
gorge near Gyala, but it
proved to be impenetrable. In 1880
Kinthup was sent back to test the...
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people of the
Pemako country near the
great elbow of the Tsangpo,
where Kinthup also met them and
found them the same as Nain
Singh Baker 2004, p. 465...
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Kinthup, a
noted Lepcha Pundit, was a
Buddhist pilgrim when he surve****
Nepal in the 1870s (photograph 1914)....
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Irrawaddy or
Brahmaputra rivers all of
which have
headwaters this region.
Kinthup, a
Lepcha man from
Sikkim emplo**** as a pundit, had
provided some evidence...
- sent Nem
Singh (G.M.N. on
official records) and
another survey ****istant
Kinthup to cut down and
float marked logs into the river. They
reached up to a...
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falls on the
Yarlung Tsangpo,
which had been
reported by the
Indian pundit Kinthup. In 1913 he made an
unauthorised exploration to the
Tsangpo Gorges with...
- of this size. It
seemed there must be a m****ive
waterfall and, indeed,
Kinthup had
reported one 150 feet (46 m) high. In 1913
Frederick Bailey, an intelligence...
