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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
336 THE RESULTS OF THE MISSION
in sending a Mission to 'Tibet, there had been signed
by the Tibetan Government in the audience-room of the
Dalai Lama's palace in Lhasa itself, in the presence of
the Chinese Amban and of all the chief men of Tibet,
a Treaty which defined our boundaries, placed our trade
relations upon a satisfactory footing, and gave us the
right to exclude any foreign influence if we should so
wish. And in spite of the military operations which we
were forced to undertake, and in spite of the Tibetans
being compelled to pay an indemnity, the position of
the 'Tibetans towards us was distinctly more favourable
when we left Tibet than when we entered it.
In making my final report to Government, I said j
that I had always regarded the conclusion of a treaty on
paper as of minor importance, and the establishment of
our relations with the Tibetans on a footing of mutual
good-will as of fundamental importance. There was little
advantage in bringing back a Treaty which was not
framed or negotiated in such a manner as to carry with it
a considerable degree of spontaneous assent. And it was
especially necessary to secure the good-will of the people
in general.
The result of our Mission to Kabul in 1840 was to
estrange the Afghans from us from that time to this, and
an intense race hatred was engendered. It would be
unwise to predict that we shall never have any difficulty
in seeing that the present Treaty is properly carried out.
But I can safely say that no feeling of race hatred was
left behind by the Mission, and that after the Treaty
was signed the Tibetans were better disposed towards us
than they had ever been before. And this I consider to
be incomparably the most important result of the policy
which the Government of India had so unswervingly
pursued.
A further result was the friendship of Bhutan. When
the Mission started, the Bhutanese were practically
strangers, and their attitude was uncertain. When the
Mission returned they were our firm friends. The chief
visited Calcutta. Mr. White has twice been most cordially
received in Bhutan. And the former 'Tongsa Penlop,
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