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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
396 THE ATTITUDE OF THE TIBETANS
Was there ever a more tragic reversal of an old
position ? Warren Hastings, Bogle, Turner, Lord
Curzon, and we in 1904, all trying to induce the Tibetans
to be ordinarily civil ! And now the Grand Lama and
his entire Government come to us, come to beg us to
uphold their right of communicating direct with us, and
to send British officers—and not merely officers, but
soldiers—to Lhasa, and to form an alliance. In all
history there can hardly be a case of a more dramatt
turning of the tables. Yet, when all we had been striving
after for a century and a half was now being pressed upon
us, we informed the Dalai Lama we were precluded from
interfering. When the Tibetans did not want us we
fought our way to Lhasa to insist upon their having us ;
when they did want us, and had come all the way from
Lhasa to get us, we turned them the most frigid of
shoulders.
The reason for this attitude was said to be* that the
Anglo-Tibetan and Anglo-Chinese Convention specially
precluded us from interfering in the internal administration
of the country. But if the Tibetan Government them-
selves wished a change, there was no reason why the first
objection should hold ; and if the latter was the obstacle, it
is inconceivable why we ourselves should have made it,
and thus in yet one other way tied our own hands. It
was because the Chinese had so grossly mismanaged
Tibetan affairs that the Indian Government had to under-
take two expeditions on the Tibetan frontier. And we
must have taken some unfortunate step if, when the
Chinese were again mismanaging Tibet, we were pre-
cluded by an engagement with them from taking what
action we liked to keep this frontier quiet.
We were, however, not altogether inactive. On
January 31, 1910, the Government of India, when they
had first heard through the official sent by the Dalai Lama
to our agent at Gyantse that the Chinese were advancing
into Tibet, had suggested j- that a representation should
be made at Peking pointing out that disorder on our
frontier could not be viewed by us with indifference,
* Blue-book, IV., p. 218.
~ Ibid., p. 188.
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