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0068	India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1

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India and Tibet : vol.1

インドとチベット : vol.1

CHAPTER I V

THE BENGAL GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS, 1873-1886

IT was not till a century had elapsed since Warren

Hastings had begun his attempts to form a friendship

with the Tibetans that the Government in India again

made any real effort to come into proper relationship with

their neighbours. For a century they were content to let

things take their course, in spite of their informality, and

in spite of the fact that Indian subjects were having all

the worst of the intercourse, for while Tibetans were

allowed to come to India when and where and how they

liked, to trade there without duty and without hindrance,

to travel and to reside wherever they wished, on the

other side, obstructions of every kind were placed in the

way of Indians, and still more of British, trading, travel-

ling, or residing in Tibet. But in the year 1873 the Indian

Government began to stir, and take stock of the position,

and to reflect whether this one-sided condition of affairs

might not be changed to the advantage of Indians and

Europeans without hurting the Tibetans.

In that year the Bengal Government addressed the

Government of India a letter, a copy of which was sent to

the Royal Geographical Society, in which they urged that

the Chinese should be pressed "for an order of admittance

to Tibet," and that " the authorities at Peking should

allow a renewal of the friendly intercourse between India

and Tibet which existed in the days of Bogle and

Turner." The Bengal Government said that the Govern-

ment of India and the Secretary of State had repeatedly

expressed the great interest which they took in this

subject, and the wish that no favourable opportunity

should be neglected of promoting the development of

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