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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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OVER-CENTRALIZATION 103
from them. But they, every one of them, went out of
their way to put their whole information and experience
at my disposal. More than that, both they and their
wives were more thoughtful and kind to my wife than
I could possibly record during all that time of anxiety
and depression when we subsequently advanced to Lhasa,
and we bave ever felt most deeply grateful to them.
'T'he Bengal Government, I have often thought, has
experienced a hard fate over Tibet affairs. It was a
Governor of Bengal—Warren Hastings—who initiated
the idea of sending a mission to Tibet. It was another
Lieutenant-Governor who revived the idea of intercourse
in 1873. It was a Bengal officer, Colman Macaulay, who
originated and pushed through the idea of a mission to
Lhasa in 1885. It was a Bengal officer, Mr. Paul, who
negotiated the Trade Regulations of 1893 ; and it was a
Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Charles Elliott, who, in 1895,
made what seems to me to have been the most suitable
recommendation for the settlement of the question, an
occupation of the Chumbi Valley.
But gradually, in the course of years, the conduct of
frontier matters has been taken out of their hands by the
Government of India and out of the hands of the latter
by the Imperial Government. There has been a greater
and greater centralization of the conduct of frontier rela-
tions, which may be necessary from some points of view,
but one of the effects of which is apparent locally. The
local Government loses its sense of responsibility for
frontier matters. Local officers feel little inducement to
fit themselves for the conduct of such affairs. And, con-
sequently, when good frontier officers really are wanted
in future, they will not be found, and the next mission
to Lhasa will in all probability be led by a clerk from
the Foreign Office in London.
I left Darjiling on June 19, in drenching rain. To
realize it the English reader must picture to himself the
heaviest thunderstorm he has ever seen, and imagine that
pouring down continuously night and day. I was, of
course, provided with a heavy waterproof cloaks with a
riding apron and an umbrella; but the moisture seemed to
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