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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
CHAPTER VIII
A MISSION SANCTIONED
WHILE the negotiations with Russia were proceeding the
Home Government would come to no final decision as to
the action to be taken. The question at issue, they in-
formed the Indian Government* in February, was no
longer one of details as to trade and boundaries—though
on these it was necessary that an agreement should be
arrived at—but the whole question of the future political
relations of India and 'Tibet. They agreed with the Indian
Government that, having regard to the geographical posi-
tion of 'Tibet on the frontiers of India, and its relations
with Nepal, it was indispensable that British influence
should be recognized at Lhasa in such a manner as to
render it impossible for any other Power to exercise a
pressure on the 'Tibetan Government inconsistent with
the interests of British India." They admitted, also, the
force of the contention that the interest shown by the
Russian Government in the action of the Government of
India on the Tibetan frontier demonstrated the urgency
of placing our relations with Tibet on a secure basis.
They recognized that Nepal might be rightly sensitive as
to any alteration in the political position of Tibet which
would be likely to disturb the relations at present existing
between the two countries, and that the establishment of
a powerful foreign influence in Tibet would disturb those
relations, and might even, by exposing Nepal to a pressure
which it would be difficult to resist, affect those which
then existed on so cordial a basis between India and
Nepal. They regretted the necessity for abandoning the
passive attitude that had hitherto sufficed in the regulation
* Blue-book, p. 184.
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