IIIFカラー高解像度
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
CHINESE AND BRITISH METHODS 323
prestige in Tibet had, according to Kawaguchi, who lived
in Lhasa for three years, dwindled since the Chino-
Japanese War ; and we had practical proofs even before
then that their influence was not as effective as a suzerain's
should be. But the memory of the prodigious efforts which
China does every now and then make always inspires a
certain awe in the Tibetans, and they never feel quite sure
when another may not be made.
The Chinese, then, undoubtedly impress the Tibetans,
but I am bigoted enough to think that their methods are
not practically so successful as our own. Tibet is a pro-
tected Chinese State; Kashmir is a protected Indian State.
In Tibet the Chinese Resident has, to support him, several
hundreds of Chinese soldiers, and in the present year 2,000.
In Kashmir the British Resident has not even a personal
guard of British soldiers or even of British-Indian soldiers.
In Tibet the Chinese are replacing the Tibetan by Chinese
police ; in Kashmir all the police are of the Kashmir State.
Kashmir is 80,500 square miles in extent, and contains
nearly as many inhabitants as 'T'ibet, arid it borders on
'T'ibet, Turkestan, and through its feudatories on Afghan
territory, while Russian territory is only twelve miles
distant. But the whole of this is controlled and the
bordering tribes are kept in order entirely through Kashmir
State troops. British officers are employed, but not a
single British or British-Indian soldier or policeman. Yet
it is unthinkable that Kashmir troops should, against the
wishes and orders of the British Government, invade the
territory of a neighbouring State, as Tibetan troops, against
the wishes and orders of the Chinese Government, invaded
Sikkim in 1886. And it is inconceivable that the
Kashmir State should repudiate and refuse to fulfil a
'T'reaty concluded on their behalf by the British Govern-
ment, as the Tibetans repudiated and refused to fulfil the
Treaty made on their behalf by the Chinese in 1890. By
all the logic of the case the Chinese, as fellow-Asiatics
and as co-religionists of the Tibetans, should have much
greater influence in Tibet than we as aliens, with a dif-
ferent religion, have in Kashmir. Yet the contrary is
most emphatically the case.
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