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
422 SOME CONCLUSIONS
to the exclusion of the Chinese, and when I suspected
an inclination of the Tibetans thus to exclude them, I
addressed both Chinese and Tibetans together. Further,
on leaving Lhasa I presented the Resident with the eight
or ten repeating-rifles I had among my articles for pres-
entation, and I gave no rifles to the Tibetans. My
estimate of the situation was that any influence we had
should be exerted to sustain the authority and position
of the Resident. Our presence in Chumbi would give us
the means of exercising physical pressure more readily
than the Chinese ever could ; the presence of the Chinese
at Lhasa itself would enable them to exert personal and
moral pressure more readily than we could. By working
together we could keep the Tibetans in order. They are
exceedingly childish and foolish, besides being excessively
obstinate in practical affairs. And if we and the Chinese
worked together, as the Amban and I had done at Lhasa
in 1904, we should, I thought, be able to preserve har-
monious relations between all three of us — Tibetans,
Chinese, and British alike.
But when Chinese action is such as to create unrest
instead of preserving order, when it upsets all the border
people and necessitates our assembling troops to keep the
frontier steady, then we have a need to intervene. And
this has been the nature of Chinese action lately. Except
the Afghans, I have not known any people quite so tactless
and provocative as the Chinese in dealing with a subject
race. Their haughtiness and the hatred they inspired were
remarked on a century ago by Manning. Long years of
slackness, indifference, and supercilious disdain of the
people, for whom no attempt is made to do anything, are
every now and then broken by some sudden and violent
effort. Chao Erh-feng's methods have formed the subject
of an impeachment by his own countrymen, and apart
from the question whether he used treachery or beheaded
prisoners, his regulations to the Tibetans of Batang to
adopt the queue and to wear trousers, the measures he
ordered for the breaking down of Lamaism, and his annexa-
tion of Derge, were all calculated to rouse the whole Lamaist
world. No one is more fully aware than myself that the
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