Tibet and the British Raj (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
1997-05-01
Förlag
RoutledgeCurzon
Illustrationer
Ill.
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 29 mm
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780700706273

Tibet and the British Raj

The Frontier Cadre, 1904-47

av Alex McKay
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1997-05-01
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Despite the popular image of Tibet as a remote and inaccessible land to which few Europeans ventured, more than one hundred British-Indian officials lived and worked there during the years 1904-1947. Following Colonel Younghusband's 1903-1904 mission to Lhasa, these officers and their supporting staff were posted in central and southern Tibet, and, after 1936-1937, at the British Mission Lhasa. Among those who rose to the senior positions there were such famous frontiersmen as Colonel F.M. Bailey, Sir Charles Bell, and Hugh Richardson. This ground-breaking work draws on previously unpublished sources, both oral and written, to examine the character, role, and influence of these officers. It concentrates on those who formed a small, distinct, group of Tibetan specialists: 'the Tibet cadre'. These men were diplomatic representatives of the Raj, but they were also scholars, spies, and empire-builders, who not only influenced events in Tibet but also shaped our modern understanding of that land. This will be the definitive source for students of Anglo-Tibetan relations.

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Introduction: to avoid incurring the hostility of the Chinese government; he may yet be an Indian ruling chief; an extremely mad scheme? a conversion almost as remarkable as Sir F. Younghusband; I became Tibetanised; growing up with a profound belief in the British Empire; the strange laboured breathing of men and mules; Tom-foolery on the Laden La, Tsarong and others in Lhasa on 1924; the weir years and the right hand of every political officer; passes to the heavenly fields; one distinct forward move; Gartok: edge of empire; keeping the Tibetans happy; they've all got something special about them; we want a united Tibet; nothing left to which objection could be taken.

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