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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
CHAPTER VI
SECURING THE TREATY RIGHTS
Now that five years had elapsed since the Trade Regula-
tions were concluded, and they were, according to their
provisions, subject to revision, the Government of India
began to consider any practical measures for securing
fuller facilities for trade. The Convention of. 1890 and
the Trade Regulations of 1893 were intended to provide
these facilities, but so far none had been obtained ; and
the Indian Government thought that, as the Tibetans
attached great importance to retaining the Giagong piece
of territory in Northern Sikkim, and as we had no real
desire to hold it, there might be advantage in conceding
that point if the Tibetans would, on their side, make some
equivalent concession. They might, it was thought, con-
cede to us the point for which we had contended when
negotiating the Trade Regulations, and recognize Phari as
the trade-mart in place of the quite useless Yatung. Lord
Salisbury* agreed that some action was necessary, but it
seemed to him that, as during recent years Chinese
advisory authority in Tibet had been little more than
nominal, and the correspondence of the Government of
India even seemed to show that it was practically non-
existent, it would be preferable to open direct communica-
tion between the Government of India and the Tibetan
authorities.
Lord Curzon therefore commenced, in the autumn of
1899, a series of attempts to open up direct communica-
tion with them. Ugyen Kâzi, the Bhutanese Agent in
Darjiling, who was accustomed to visit Tibet for trade
* Blue-book, p. 101.
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