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0052 India and Tibet : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / Page 52 (Color Image)

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CHAPTER II

TURNER'S MISSION, 1782

Warren Hastings was not content with a single effort
to reopen the commercial and friendly intercourse which
in former times had subsisted between Tibet and India.
As he had expected little from the first move, so he had
always intended to work continuously with the same end
in view, hoping to eventually gain that end by repeated
efforts over long periods.

Bogle returned to Calcutta in June, 1775, and in
November of the same year Hastings deputed Dr. Hamil-
ton, who had accompanied him to Tibet, on a second
mission to Bhutan. Hamilton spent some months in
Bhutan, inquiring into and settling certain causes of dis-
pute ; and in July, 1777, he was sent on a third mission
to Bhutan to congratulate a new Deb Raja on his succes-
sion. Thus, as Markham points out, Warren Hastings,
by keeping up a regular intercourse with the Bhutan
rulers, by maintaining a correspondence with the Tashi
Lama, and by means of an annual fair at Rangpur,
prevented the opening made by Bogle from again being
closed.

Warren Hastings also intended to send another mis-
sion to Tibet itself, and in 1779 Bogle was appointed
Envoy for a second time. But in the meanwhile the
Tashi Lama had decided to undertake a journey to
Peking to visit the Chinese Emperor. Bogle, therefore,
was to have been sent to Peking to meet the Lama there,
but, most disastrously for all friendly intercourse between
Tibet and India, the Lama died in Peking in November
1780, and Bogle himself died at Calcutta in April, 1781.

The success of Asiatic affairs depends so much on the
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