Excerpt from Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow It 13 not my object here to attempt any thing like a biographical sketch of the author, yet I think some incidents of his life might interest the reader. From his boyhood, Sarat Chandra evinced that firm de termination, and love of peril for its own sake, in which is to be found the clue to his success in after-life. Following the practical turn of his mind, he studied up to the highest class of the Civil Engineering College in Calcutta. 111 health compelled him to seek a change to Darjiling, m 1874. Happily at this time be was selected by Mr. C. B. Cla1ke to fill the post of the Head Master of the Tibetan Boarding School at Darjiling an institution then newly started by the Government of Bengal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.