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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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14 BOGLE'S MISSION, 1774
that the Bhutanese, encouraged by their successes in
Kuch Behar to-day, and undeterred by so slight a
boundary as a small stream, might invade the British
provinces to-morrow. Bogle continued that Warren
Hastings, on the people of Kuch Behar applying to him
for assistance, immediately despatched a battalion of sepoys
to repel the invaders, but was extremely glad, on receipt
of the Tashi Lama's letter, to suspend hostilities and
subsequently to conclude a peace with the Bhutanese and
restore them their country. In conclusion, he said that
Warren Hastings, being happy to cultivate the friendship
of a man whose fame was so well known, and whose
character was held in veneration by so many nations, had
sent him to the Lama's presence with the letter and tokens
of friendship which he had laid before him.
The Lama said that the Deb Judhur did not manage
his country properly, and had been turned out. Bogle
replied that the English had no concern with his expulsion ;
it was brought about by his own people : the Company
only wished the Bhutanese to continue in their own
country, and not to encroach upon Bengal, or raise
disturbances upon its frontier. The Governor," said the
Lama, " had reason for going to war, but, as I am averse
from bloodshed, and the Bhutanese are my vassals, I am
glad it is brought to a conclusion."
The point, then, that it was an act of aggression on the
part of a vassal of the Tibetans which was the initial
cause of our relationship with the Tibetans ; that that act
was considered unjustifiable by the then ruler of Tibet, and it
that our own action was approved of and appreciated 11
by him, is established by this conversation. Except for
the unjustifiable aggression of the Bhutanese upon our
neighbours, we would never have been brought into I
conflict with these vassals of Tibet ; and but for the
intervention of the Tibetan Regent on their behalf, we
should not then have thought of any relationship with the
Tibetans. The initiation of our intercourse did not rest
with us. We were not the interferers. It was the
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