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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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OUR POLICY IN TIBET 415
| ~ | that the Indian official so employed would be gaining some all-round experience, which would be of value on future occasions. By all these means that personal, intimate contact will be increased which alone can beget mutual confi- dence. At present men in India feel that they are regarded with suspicion by English politicians, as if they were guilty till they could prove themselves innocent. No strong inspiration comes from England to them. They have to carry on the greatest Imperial work that any country has ever undertaken, chilled by distant critics who know them not. These are conditions which obviously call for improvement, and perhaps these sugges- tions would go some way to this end, and render it more possible for English politicians to place that trust in the men on the spot, which is the bed-rock principle on which England should carry on the government of her great Dependency. |
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ti All this, however, is a matter of machinery, I have
touched on it first because it is, in my opinion, through
the machinery being of a defective type that the object of
our policy in Tibet has not been attained. It is now time
to examine the results of our efforts there since 1773.
The net result is that at last we find the Tibetans
anxious to be on neighbourly terms, and, indeed, to form
an alliance with us, but that the action of the Russians
tl on the one hand and of the Chinese on the other, together
with lukewarmness in England, stands in the way of our
being as intimate with the Tibetans as they now wish us
to be. It has proved in the result that the Tibetans are
not really the seclusive people we had believed. By
nature they are sociable and hospitable and given to
trade. They are jealous about their religion, but as long
as that is not touched they are ready enough for political
t relationship, for social intercourse, and for commercial
transactions. The present obstacle to neighbourly inter-
course is the suspicion of the Chinese. There is some
reason to think that from the first they have instilled into
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