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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
PROPOSED MISSION TO LHASA 77
Cavagnari's murder at Kabul should be everlastingly
brought up as an argument against sending an officer
outside our frontier it is difficult to understand. It is
ignoble to the last degree to be scared for all time by
what happened then. Cavagnari was murdered. What
then ? I agree with my old chief and first master in
Central Asian politics, Sir Charles Macgregor, that if
our agent A was murdered we should have sent up B,
and if B was murdered we should have sent up C.
Our whole Afghan policy for thirty years past has been
frightfully ignominious, and the day will come when we
shall bitterly regret not having had an agent at the capital
of a country for whose foreign policy we are responsible.
At any rate, the fact of barbarian Afghans murdering our
representative at Kabul in 1879 was no adequate reason
for not sending a representative to Lhasa in 1903.
These, however, are merely my own views. The
contention of the Government of India was that, in
suggesting a mission to Lhasa, they were merely reviving
a proposal which had been supported as far back as 1874
by Sir T. Wade, then British Minister at Peking, and
which was almost taking definite shape in 1885-86, when
the importance of a Burmese settlement appears to have
so impressed itself upon all parties that the Lhasa Mission
was sacrificed in order that the signature of the Chinese
Government to the Burmese Convention might be
obtained. The Government of India considered it a grave
misfortune that they should have been diverted from a
project of unquestionable importance by the exigencies of
political considerations that had not the remotest con-
nection with Tibet. They recommended, therefore, the
revival of this precedent, and the firm pursuance of the
policy which was then abandoned.
The Government of India regarded the so-called
suzerainty of China over Tibet as a constitutional fiction.
China was always ready to break down the barriers of
ignorance and obstruction and to open Tibet to the
civilizing influence of trade, but her pious wishes were
defeated by the short-sighted stupidity of the Lamas. In
the same way 'Tibet was only too anxious to meet our
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