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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
52 THE CONVENTION WITH CHINA
of Tibet, or even in Tibet proper at all. It did not lie on
the far side of the Himalayan watershed. It was Phari,
at the head of the Chumbi Valley, on the southern side of
the main Himalayan range. Yet to even this the Chinese
and Tibetans would not agree, and eventually Yatung, at
the extreme southern end of the Chumbi Valley and
immediately on our border, was agreed upon.
Having made this concession, and having refrained
from pressing for permission to allow British subjects to
travel beyond this or to buy land and build houses there,
we had hoped that the Chinese would meet our wishes in
regard to the admission of tea. Speakers in Parliament
scoffed at the idea of pressing tea upon the Chinese, but
for the Bengal Government it is an important point. All
along the low hills bordering Tibet there are numerous
tea-plantations, affording both an outlet for British and
Indian capital and employment for many thousands of
Indian labourers. To a responsible local Government it
is of importance to encourage and foster this industry.
Now, just across the frontier are three millions of tea-
drinkers. Tea is just the kind of light, portable com-
modity most suited for transit across mountains, and it
was perfectly natural, reasonable, and right that the
Bengal Government should press for its admission to
Tibet, that the 'Tibetans might at least have the chance of
buying it or not, as they pleased. But the Chinese, in
spite of concessions in other matters by the Government
of India, remained obstinate, and still remain obstinate,
in regard to the admission of tea, and eventually only
agreed to admit Indian tea into Tibet "at a rate of duty
not exceeding that at which Chinese tea is imported into
England," which, as the latter rate of duty is 6d. per pound,
and the tea drunk in Tibet is very inferior, was in reality
the imposition of an ad valorem duty of from 150 to 200
per cent., and was therefore a concession of not the
slightest value.
On December 5, 1893, the Trade Regulations were
signed at Darjiling. The trade-mart at Yatung was to
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