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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
SUGGESTED REMEDIES . 411
them, for they have been about the world more than
British politicians. They are well enough aware that
Indian considerations must be weighed in the balance with
other Imperial considerations, and that in the last resort it
is the British statesman who must decide. But what they
doubt is whether the full weight of the Indian considera- '
tions is ever put into the Imperial scale. Since 1873
every sort of consideration has been given more weight
than the Indian in these Tibetan affairs, and the con-
sequence is that they still drag on in as unsatisfactory
a state now as they were thirty-seven years ago.
These are some defects of the present system, but
there is little use in criticizing if no remedy is suggested
for the supposed evil. The main remedy I would, with
all deference, suggest is that the Parliamentary control,
t which must always exist, should be exercised, less by
means of meddlesome and mischievous questions, and
I more by means of full debates, in which, on Indian affairs,
both Houses always show great sense and dignity and
ie restraint. Such debates, critical though they may be of
i; the work of British administrators, assist, encourage, and
educate rather than hamper them, and do not tend to
impair that responsibility which should be theirs if India
is to be well governed. They put faddists in their proper
place, and let rounded common sense and wide experience
k in large affairs have their due influence. The British
public probably do not expect any more than this of their
Parliamentary representatives. In all likelihood they
would be quite willing to allow a greater freedom to their
representatives in India, and have no desire for their Par-
liamentary representatives, by incessant bombardment on
trifling points, to be putting such pressure on the Secretary
of State as to encourage any natural inclination he may
already have to increased interference in the details of
Indian administration.
If this be really the wish of the British people, then
a much ampler latitude might be allowed to the Viceroy,
Lieutenant-Governors, and high Frontier Officers, and a
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