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0311 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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contravention of the policy declared by His Majesty's
Government.

As to the objection which might be raised on the
grounds of the difficulty of keeping open communication
with the agent at Lhasa, the Government of India con-
tended that such an objection was based upon a mis-
apprehension, and that there was no real difficulty, except
on the southern side of the watershed, to such free passage
to and from Tibet as might be necessary for the adequate
support of a British representative, either at Lhasa or
Gyantse; and our recent operations had demonstrated
that, however great the physical difficulties of communica-
tion might be, they were not insuperable even at the worst
time of the year. Moreover, the difficulties on the Indian
side of the Himalayas would be obviated by a road
through Chumbi, which they were examining, that ran
down the Amochu to the plains of Bengal, avoiding the
Jelap-la.

The Government of India felt, then, that it was a
necessity to have an agent at Lhasa, and they were quite
willing to undertake the responsibility. That was the
view of the responsible Government on the spot. The
Imperial side of the question had still to be weighed, and
of that the Imperial Government would be the judge, but
in regard to that aspect the Government of India made
the following observations:

Lord Lansdowne had given assurances to the Russian
Ambassador, but he had expressly added when making
them that the policy then announced was not unalterable
in any eventuality, and that the action of His Majesty's
Government was to some extent dependent on the action
of the Tibetans themselves. The Government of India
did not desire to depart from the declaration which Lord
Lansdowne had made that, so long as no other Power
endeavoured to intervene in the affairs of Tibet, no attempt
would be made to annex it, to establish a protectorate
over it, or in any way to control its internal administration;
but they thought that recent developments might make
it incumbent upon them to recommend to His Majesty's
Government a reconsideration of the opinion they had