MORRIS, Charles John. 1895 — 13.12.1980. British Colonial Officer, Journalist and Social Anthropologist in India. Served in army in 1915-34, after WW I in India. As officer of 3rd Gurkha Rifles learned Nepali. Explored Chinese Central Asia. Retired as Major. From 1938 Professor of English Literature at Keio University and Lecturer at Imperial and Bunrika Universities in Tokyo. In 1943-52 head of the Far East service of B.B.C. and 1952-58 controller for the B.B.C. Third Programme. C.B.E. 1957. A mountaineer (with two attempts to climb Mount Everest, 1922 & 1936) and photographer. Unmarried.
Publications: With W. Brook Northey: The Gurkhas, their manners, customs and country. 282 p. L. 1928.
– Living with Lepchas. 13+312 p. L. 1938.
– Traveller from Tokyo. 152 p. L. 1943.
– A Winter in Nepal. 232 p. L. 1963; Eating the Indian Air. 294 p. L. 1968.
– The Gurkhas, an ethnology. 182 p. Delhi 1985.
Sources: Wikipedia.
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