IIIFカラー高解像度
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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
DECISION OF SECRETARY OF STATE 261
fulfilment of the conditions regarding the trade-marts ;
the boundary laid down in the Convention of 1890 was to
be recognized ; the two Sikkim-British subjects who had
been captured in 1903 were to be released ; fortifications
were to be demolished.
In amplification and explanation of these telegraphic
instructions the Secretary of State, on August 5, addressed
to the Government of India a despatch,* setting forth the
deliberate policy of His Majesty's Government. They had
to consider the question, not as a local one concerning
India and 'Tibet alone, but from the wider point of view
of the relations of Great Britain to other Powers, both
European and Asiatic, and as involving the status of a
dependency of the Chinese Empire. Formerly European
nations and their interests were, in the main, far removed
11 from the scope of Indian policy, and the relations of India
with the States on her borders rarely involved any European
complications ; but the effect of Indian policy in relation
I to Afghanistan, Siam, 'Tibet, or any other dependency
of the Chinese Empire was now liable to be felt through-
out Europe. This immediate responsibility towards
Europe, which Indian policy nowadays imposed on this
f country, necessarily involved its correlative, and the course
.r of affairs on the Indian frontiers could not be decided
ti without reference to Imperial exigencies elsewhere.
His Majesty's. Government had also been consistently
averse to any policy in Tibet which would tend to throw
on the British Empire an additional burden. The great
t~ increase to our responsibilities, however necessary, which
recent additions to the Empire had involved, made it
obvious that it would be imprudent further to enlarge
them except upon the strongest ground. In military and
naval matters the resources of Great Britain and India
must be considered together. India had from time to
time given effective and ready help in the defence of
British interests and British Colonies. On the other hand,
it had to be remembered that the British army largely
existed in order to defend India, and every new obligation
undertaken by India was as much a charge upon the
* Blue-book, III., p. 45.
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