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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
92 A MISSION SANCTIONED
British and Tibetan officials for the due settlement of the
trade and frontier difficulties which might occur.
In conclusion, I was warned to be very careful to
abstain from using any language or taking any action
which would bind the Government to any definite course
hereafter without first obtaining the sanction of the
Government of India.
All was now prepared for the start of a mission. In
this extraordinarily complex and intricate matter the many
different lines had at last been made to converge on one
point. The manifold communications which had taken
place for thirty years between the Bengal Government and
the Government of India, between local Indian officers and
local Chinese and Tibetans ; the correspondence between
Simla or Calcutta and London, between the India Office
and the Foreign Office, between the Foreign Office and
the Russian and Chinese Governments, and between the
Viceroy and our Minister at Peking and the Chinese
Resident at Lhasa, had all been boiled down into the
definite act of the despatch of a mission to a place a bare
dozen miles inside Tibet to discuss trade-relations, frontier
and grazing rights.
This was not, after all, any remarkably bold or out-
rageously aggressive act. Such as it was, was it justified ?
The narrative of the causes which led to the move has
been long, but, even so, it has been hard to put their true
significance so that it may be appreciated by people un-
acquainted with Orientals. Still, there are some fairly
plain facts and considerations which emerge from the
long narrative, and which all who are accustomed to the
conduct of affairs may be expected to understand.
The first fact is this—that it was aggression on the
part of the Tibetans or their vassals which led to action
on our part, and that before ever a single soldier of the
British Government had crossed the frontier into Tibet
Tibetan troops had crossed it to the Indian side. It was
the irruption of the Bhutanese into the plains of Bengal
which caused Warren Hastings to send Bogle to Tibet in
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