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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
INDIA AND TIBET
INTRODUCTION
Tins book is an account of our relations with Tibet, but
many still wonder why we need have any such relations at
all. The country lies on the far side of the Himalayas, the
greatest range of snowy mountains in the world. Why,
then, should we trouble ourselves about what goes on there ?
Why do we want to interfere with the Tibetans ? Why not
leave them alone ? These are very reasonable and pertinent
questions, and such as naturally spring to the mind of even
the least intelligent of Englishmen. Obviously, therefore,
they must have sprung to the minds of responsible British
statesmen before they ever sanctioned intervention. The
sedate gentlemen who compose the Government of India
are not renowned for being carried away by bursts of
excitement or enthusiasm, nor are they remarkable for
impulsive, thoughtless action. They have spent their lives
in the dull routine of official grind, and by the time they
attain a seat in the Viceregal Council they are, if anything,
too free from emotional impulses. Certainly, the initiation
of anything forward and interfering was as little to be
expected from them as from the most rigorous anti-
Imperialist. The head of the Government of India at the
time of the Tibet Mission was, it is true, a man of less
mature official experience, but he happened to be a man
who had studied Asiatic policy in nearly every part of Asia,
besides having been Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs ;
and even supposing he had been the most impulsive and
irresponsible of Viceroys, he could take no action without
gaining the assent of the majority of his colleagues in India,
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